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Inspired by comments on another thread, I wondered what "type" of bikes people here have/ride... so if I can I'll stick up a poll, just out of nosiness!
(tick as many boxes as seems appropriate)
Sorry for not adding singlespeeds, fixies and BSO's, or tandems(!), or recumbents, I ran out of options!
none of the above ;)
I ticked hybrid in place of Cycle Cross.
Dave C
I also have a reasonably priced and spec'd road bike from the late '80's.
1) 3-speed roadster, aka the iron horse.
Would be an ideal city bike if it had a rack and decent brakes.
2) Fixed gear cyclocross aka wee blue floofy.
The advertised bike concept seems pretty daft to me even when it's single speed as sold, but apparently Genesis prefer to call it an XC rather than what it is - a low maintenance commuter that's sporty enough to stay fun.
3) 8-speed road bike aka black fruity.
This started life as my sister's 12-speed racer in 1988, and has been through a short conversion to fixed gear. Either floofy or fruity was getting gears and it was around half the price to gearify this one, which also meant I can keep the fixed+studs combo that I was so impressed by last winter.
4) Mountain bike with suspension fork de-suspended and road tyres installed, aka the tractor.
I got this free for helping a pal move house, and shortly afterwards bought a trailer to give it some purpose in life - as well as because I wanted one anyway but didn't have a tractor. Neat, I think.
- edit. Like DaveC I declared the cyclocross to count as hybrid(it does have flat bars after all) so I ticked all four of mine in.
My partner would vote 5x mountain bike ("They're all different...") and 1x high end road bike ("It's just an experiment").
What's the difference between an adventure touring bike and a normal touring bike?
hybrid & MTB. probably road or CX added soon
An Adventure touring bike has one of the following:
- A lock so heavy no-one else can lift it, and feathery wings on the rack.
- Sleek, lithe lines drawn in midnight black C-12, with the most amazing pair of... *looks warily at non-sexist-pig element of forum* ...it's a very fine looking bike.
- Hot rod red and gold trim, and so many special features it'd take all day to list. GPS answers to the name of JARVIS.
- Pannier adapted to carry quivers of arrows on automatic dispenser.
- A good ole fashioned cruiser in God's own American steel, although astonishingly nimble for its age.
- Don't make it rusty. You wouldn't like it when it's rusty.
Curious deviant frame designs notwithstanding, I'm down to four. One mountain bike that recently celebrated its 21st birthday, one high end folder and two touring bikes that happen to be recumbent.
Claud Butler Avant Coureur Special, Flying Scot road, Flying Scot mtb, Longstaff TWD, Brompton M6R, S6L, S2L-X, Pashley roadster.
2 hybrids (one with 3 spd sturmey so not very hybrid). Specialised tricross, specialised secteur elite and as of yesterday very white very fast specialised allez comp. At least two of these courtesy of the bike to work scheme over the years
Mid end road bike even at £800 folk still say how much. Mid end mtb (my tractor) which doubles as my utility bike depending the fittings and my single speed not really sure where a bitsa ss fits on low to high end scale.
2010 752-frame Ridgeback Panorama touring bike. It's a fairly heavyweight steel frame. If you fattened up the tyres sufficiently (there's plenty room) you could call it an "Adventure" tourer, although it's been nowhere more challenging than the worst that the NCN has to offer so far.
2009 Cannondale CAAD9 road bike. Towards the upper end of the middle-of-the-range sorta road bike.
1997 531-frame "general porpoise" Dawes Giro road bike built from spare and donor parts. You could also call it a winter trainer, an audax bike, a light tourer.
1978 vintage 531-frame Raleigh single speed bitsa-bike (built from bitsa this and bitsa that) plaything bike.
Most of the components to build a pretty sweet but ultimately pointless chimera of a time trial bike.
"What's the difference between an adventure touring bike and a normal touring bike?"
Arguably (as all categories are arguable!), an "adventure" tourer will be a heavier built bike (or to the critics, a tank!), put together with a view to covering unmade paths and tracks fully loaded, as opposed to a tourer built with European roads in mind which will be generally lighter. Generally they are built on MTB wheels and gears and with heavy duty racks (and indeed frames)and slightly wider tyres.
@Uberuce and @Smudge - thank you for your definitions. I think Uberuce wins the florid prose ribbon. :)
Oh, I didn't have a clue. Just wanted to make a poor and nerdy pun.
'Lower spec' folding bike (although I feel this is rather unfair to the 20!) and touring bike (Kona Sutra).
And of course a recumbent...
rofl, I just worked out Uberuce's stable descriptions!
@Steveo, clearly went over my head tonight :-(
It was the rusty one that twigged and looking back over the colour scheme of the 'rod confirmed it, it's a little ostentatious.
A one-up-from-the-bottom-of-the-range EBC roadbike, of which only the frame, stem, front wheel and BB remains. Sparebike is an EBC "Town and Trail Connection" of unknown vintage which probably counts as a hybrid. I also now have a half-share in a Raleigh folder. The 531 road frame in the loft is still awaiting component-removal prior to restoration.
Brompton for bike-train-bike commuting and general going places around town.
Old Giant OCR road bike which used to belong to Mr fimm (and was of the "how much" price range when new, I believe, though I've logged it as a low-spec bike as we replaced a lot of bits with cheaper parts (the expensive parts having worn out))
Time trial bike that I got 2nd hand, used for triathlons. Logged as "high end road bike". I'm a bit "all the gear and no idea" on it...
Mountain bike that never gets used but I can't quite bring myself to get rid of because 1) it would only sell for about £50 and 2) I might get into mountainbiking sometime...
Put the Cotic X into the 'lower end' road bike, though felt dirty doing so.
Kaff was put down as a Tourer - it's done a few audaxes and takes me on any longer weekend rides I want to do, but overall is the daily commuter these days after the demise of the fixed wheel last year.
The old Sunbeam, well it's got wheels on it so I can count it, is 'Dutch style' (though very British...).
And the Soul mountain bike, which I occasionally flirt with selling, then beat myself back into sense.
The Sunbeam's more of a path racer than a Dutch int it? I'd put it in the Dutch tickbox too, mind.
One of the parents at work asked if wee blue floofy was a retro bike. I initially said it was modern, but as we talked, it occurred to me that it's got more in common with a path racer than the MTBs and cyclocrosses it was spawned from.
Convergent or possibly degenerative evolution ftw.
I've two road bikes, one of which is a cheap attempt to replicate the other and a cheap mountain bike I got for commuting when the stress of commuting by road was blamed for my (then ideopathic) hypertension.
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