Originally Posted by
IchbinJay
Overall, I'd really just like to bike so that I'm not thinking about the bike so often. Even if I'm a little slow, it'd be nice to not be switching between bikes. I'd like to just ride without worrying about the terrain or the equipment.
If it were me and it had to be just one bike, I'd look at either a gravel bike or a hybrid that ran on 650b x 47 mm tires. Because I have one of those, and the tires are adequate for my local singletrack. So if I really had to trim down to one bike, a rigid bike on something like the WTB Horizon tires would be my compromise of choice. If I lived in a more urban area, I might choose differently.
That said, I look at multiple bikes in the same way as a golfer looks at multiple clubs. None of my golfing friends are trying to get down to just one club.