Originally Posted by
Wileyrat
Meh.....When I want to play in the dirt, I ride my hardtail.
I really dislike this trend towards having a different bike for every use someone can invent.
Actually, I probably used to ride cx on a gas pipe 10 speed....It was called being a kid.
Aren't CX bikes actually the answer to your dislike of specific bikes though? A CX bike is like a swiss army knife. With a couple of different wheelsets and some fenders you can go from a road machine to a weekday commuter to an endurance gravel ride or a CX race bike all in a matter of minutes.
There are at least a few guys in my area who've ditched their road bikes altogether and now just ride CX bikes year round. On fast group rides they just run road wheels with 23-25mm tires and seem to have no problem keeping up.