http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: bike style - Recent Topics en Thu, 21 May 2026 10:41:34 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1639#post-15939 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:33:24 +0000 Smudge 15939@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I’ve been looking at the bicycles I see as I travel about and, excepting the desperately fashionable on fixies and faux fixies I’m seeing fewer and fewer mountain bikes, I’m also starting to see many more practical bikes (eg, fitted with full mudguards, lights, bell etc.).<br /> This led me to wonder… the eighties and nineties were the era of the mountain bike, as people realise a bicycle is useful/fun but a mountain bike is somewhat compromised away from the mountains, the 2000-2010’s (don’t know a snappy abbreviation!) seem to have become the era of the hybrid (or often the roadified/commuting prepared mountain bike).</p> <p>So will the next decade be the era of the tourer style bike? (my definition: a bike without suspension with drop bars and mudguards and at least one rack which will take panniers, middle sized road tyres and a wide range of gearing. Eg. Ridgeback Panorama or a kitted ‘cross bike doubtless open to debate though!)</p> <p>Or will there be a different craze/fashion…? Maybe folders as bikes become more popular and space more restricted?</p> <p>As exam papers used to say, “discuss” ;-) </p>