Originally Posted by
hazben1
I have a chance to buy a really nice carbon fiber cyclocross bike at a bargain. I already have a road bike, a hybrid, and a mountain bike. But, I think down the road I may do some bike touring and wondered how well suited is a cyclocross for touring. Anyone use one for touring? Plusses? Minuses?
depends on the bike and your anticipated load. Seems to me if it's a light CF bike you're looking at light loads, bike packing and no panniers. Not because CF can't handle the load but that it probably doesn't have rack or eyelet fittings and it probably has groovy 24 spoke count wheels. Also, depending on the bike a cross bike was never designed to be a load carrier. I have a CrossCheck and think it would be a fine tourer but it feels whippy with a heavy rear load. I'd be inclined to set it up with front lowriders and top of rear rack load.