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Originally Posted by
prj71
He's right. It's not an exaggeration...Between mountain bikes, fat bikes, gravel bikes, recreational hybrid bikes and road bikes and so many different tire widths available...These are the good times right now.
Why isn't touring more popular? It still is...but it's made the move to gravel roads with gravel bikes.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/features...aping-cycling/
O.P. cited the lack of diversity (I'm para-phrasing) in the bikes at his LBS, so perhaps those types may be absent there.
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