You ever ride a road bike? It's fun as fuck and it's fast as fuck. Or easy as fuck if you're going slower. And the only reason this is not exactly feasible for everyday transport is because everywhere spents a gajillion moneys on keeping highways smooth for people in cars instead of fucking bikes. You have 4 fat ass wheels, sophisticated suspension and everything you don't need this shit. I wanna roadbike everywhere ffs.
Now you might say oh the geometry is not relaxing but you know what? Upright-style dutch bike, except 22mm tyres. Nigh 0 rolling resistance. Only impossible due to shit infrastructure planning
I feel bad for everyone who grew up with only mountain bikes and never learned how awesome whipping around on a road bike is. It blew my mind when I finally got one.
The recent gravel trend seems to me largely influenced by the fact that any and all bicycle paths or MUPs have degraded or are built to such a standard that you can't actually ride them on a full-on roadbike anymore honestly.
And it's not even wrong. There's like 2 routes I can take with my roadbike from where I live if I don't hop on a train to do it because everything that's not for the car is in such shit condition
I’ve been looking at gravel bikes for this exact reason. Road bikes are so much fun, but my city barely maintains the roads any more.
Yeah same. Basically scouting for 90s MTB-Frames to just build one atm because premade ones are prohibitively expensive atm
I miss being a bike guy. I live in the suburbs now and it's 10x more dangerous and less practical than when I was in the city
I prefer upright commuters to roadbikes, step through frames especially make shopping easier with large panniers.
Also some areas really do require ebikes.
