In my country 🇧🇪 the roads are just so shit that i cant drive a racebike unless i want a flat tire everyday or atleast every week thats why i might buy a gravelbike
I don’t know about gravel bikes but I ride my Trek 800 from my house to the mailbox bank at the entrance to my subdivision 5 miles one way down a part gravel/part dirt road.
Get a 29" mtb frame, something with narrow chainstays like a BMC so you can put a road crank on. Replace the fork with a 27.5 fork, but keep the 700c wheels. You can still fit 45-47mm gravel tires and now you've got a long, low and slack fire road flyer. BONUS: you save $$$ by not paying the "gravel tax"
After two accidents being bumped by cars, I will probably never go back to road biking except the 5-mile commute to work. Picking up my new Verve 3 this weekend.
Can I use an XC bike instead? I want to have a bike that a I can use for long rides with a very slight off-road. Road conditions are not good in our country plus I prefer the aesthetics of mtb.
Got rid of my rigid gravel bike and just ride my mountain bike on group rides. On smooth dirt roads they’re faster than me but throw in some ruts rocks & downhills I’m faster and more controlled.
If you don't care about speed, a full suspension MTB is definitely more comfortable than a solid frame with no real suspension. Tried locking up my suspension for a 20km ride 100% road, it didn't took me 3 minutes to unlock the suspension 😂 Because even if I have bigger tires, I can feel way more bumps than with the suspension on. So I can imagine a bike with virtually ZERO suspension and smaller tires 😅 But, I noticed road and gravel bikes are really way faster on the road than MTB, so I am thinking of trying a full suspension road or gravel bike. 🤔 ...or I will just play with my full sus MTB and convert it a mid drive e-bike with around 1kw motor and battery capacity that can reach 100+km in flat roads. 🤔
@@domestique3954but power needed for riding 8 kg bike and 16 kg bike is big diffetence and additionaly think about rolling resistance and aero. MTB bike must be assisted to drive 40 kph.
@Toadboy if it has a throttle its not an ebike. Its a motorcycle. Motorcycles have throttles. You know why shops don't work on those? Because they don't work on motorcycles. A lot of shops will tell you to take those outside. No motorized vehicles in the store. An ebike doesn't have a throttle.
@@tygrewesterfield841 bike shops don't work on ebikes with throttles because 1. They don't sell them cause they only sell from big brands. 2. It's hard to work on ebikes 3. They are newer
