Clark W. Griswold
Join Date: Mar 2014
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Bikes: Foundry Chilkoot Ti W/Ultegra Di2, Salsa Timberjack Ti, Cinelli Mash Work RandoCross Fun Time Machine, 1x9 XT Parts Hybrid, Co-Motion Cascadia, Specialized Langster, Phil Wood Apple VeloXS Frame (w/DA 7400), R+M Supercharger2 Rohloff, Habanero Ti 26
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Agreed with others just get a bike more suited to your current riding. Have multiple bikes is a good thing. It is quite hard to have one bike that can do everything well it will do some things well and others not so well. I would rather have a mountain bike for mountain biking and a road or gravel bike for the rides you are looking to do.
I could go through the trouble of swapping out the front fork to a suspension corrected carbon fork and maybe be able to fit a larger chainring and put on different tires and all of that but when I want to mountain bike I would undo all of that and it is more trouble than it is worth and the bike still won't be a great bicycle for the road.