What type of bike do you take on your trips most often?
What type of bike do you take on your trips most often? Also feel free to comment below with more details or if your bike type isn't included in the options.
What type of bike do you take on your trips most often? 13 votes
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Why can one not select more than one type?
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Or "None at all"?
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Depends where we are going😁 Sometimes we take E Roadbikes, sometimes we take E Mountain bikes. Sometimes one of each. Sometimes my OH takes his ordinary Gravel Bike🤣 (Watching my OH deliberate over his cycle choice each trip is one of life’s mysteries. He subscribes to the keen cyclist’s perfect ownership equation…….. i.e the perfect number of bikes is whatever you own, plus one!🤣🤣) You need Gravel bikes on the poll list, they are very popular👍
Cannot post photos since the website has changed again😡
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RIP Marazion Club Site, we were in area for start of TofB in Penzance, and riding some of our favourite area. One of each, a Mountain bike, and a road bike. Both E-bikes, I cannot do the Cornish hills unassisted, and OH has to maintain a low heart rate since his heart attack.
It won’t allow photo posting in edit it seems.
A different combo at Clumber, flat enough for OH to use his ordinary gravel bike. We were chasing Wout van Aert around🤣
Wout and friends😁
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If uncertain of what’s around, I’d always go for the gravel bike. We were at River Breamish site recently and used Ride with GPS to find some routes including a 100km ride to Bamburgh, Seahouses etc. All good until the route took us onto a gravel section which turned into a 2 mile steady climb of farm tracks which simply would not have been doable on our road bikes.
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cottage stay in Borders, near Gordon, saw me out alone (always a dodgy decision🤭) on a Komoot route my OH had found for me. I wanted to get from our cottage, on a farm, up to Hume Castle which was visible from the cottage, but across a deep valley. Off I set, fine on quiet country lanes, then I had to take to farm tracks, or rather ploughed fields😱 ruts were so deep I had to stand on pedals and keep them at same level as track was too narrow to use pedals. After this dice with disaster came two wonderful hungry farm dogs, hell bent on a chunk of me and my bike, and then of course I had to climb back up from the ploughed valley bottom🫣Luckily, some gravel tracks. I did make it to the Castle, had a snack and a drink, and then set off back along the ridge road, by this time visible with binocs from cottage so OH knew I was still in one piece. Lovely riding from then on, quiet, beautiful country lanes. The air was blue when I got back though, I draw the lines at ploughed fields🤣
There’s always someone watching you on a ride.🤣
Made it! Hume Castle, now a restored folly, but still very interesting. Beautiful cycling countryside around, the Tour of Britain uses this area extensively, and we have watched race start, finish and go by a few times here. Recommended for a cycling break, although perhaps not for young children.
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