Originally Posted by
cyccommute
Here's a route that follows lots of Colorado railroads and would be a wonderful trip for bikepacking. You could cut off some of the route if you wanted and there are sections that I've never ridden like around Marble. You might be able to do it on a road bike but a mountain bike would be better.
So for that route would you prefer to run fat knobbies or slicks? If it is fairly non technical I might consider using drop bars and medium to fat slicks on my rigid MTB. My wrists really hate the MTB bars anyway, even with bar ends I am not as comfortable with flat bars.
Edit: I would be interested in some more description of the route you linked if you have time to comment in some detail.