Guy at work picking up a top range Trek Boone at the weekend & is going to put mudguards on it & use it to commute to work.

It’s his cash, he has every right to do what he likes but I can’t help feel sorry for the bike, the only dirt it’ll see is the dog turds on the cycle path

Meh, fair enough. I know plenty of folk with CX bikes who never take them anywhere near anything that could be considered ‘off road’

Noice, bloke spends money on bike 😀

Don’t worry, I’m fairly confident the bike won’t mind too much.

Money into the bike industry – can’t complain too much.

Besides, he might love it and get into the whole thing.

He sounds like a right **** …burn him!

Sorry OP, but you just come across as jealous to me!

Hugely jealous of course

Slash his tyres every day.

Convince him he needs a tougher bike

Suggest a DH rig.

Suggest a DH rig

with Super Tacky’s I presume?

If he doesn’t like it in 2months offer first dibs. 🙂

It’s only 105 and bb5 brakes, sounds like what many consider as commuter bike territory to me 🙂

He’s spending money on bikes so is good overall. Someday that’s going to be a great sh bargain for someone.

Why don’t you suggest he puts some hybrid tyres onto it.

Sadly it’s a 54

It’s cool that he’s buying a bike to ride to work on shirley?? Personally, I am not liking that (don’t really like Treks anyway).

Used to see someone commuting on a DH rig. Thought maybe he just does some DH after work. The tyres were Maxxis stuff (minion I think), but were utterly bald. Or maybe he just liked DHing on slicks.

Bad taste,I would have got a Bronson carbon instead.

I bought a cross bike and rode it on the dirt

It was shit IME

Great for racing round a field, I bet, but uncomfy and slow for proper trails – and this is the new forest, not Chamonix

Sounds like a good commuter 🙂 Maybe could warrant some slightly more relaxed geo for a non-racer, but I don’t see the problem. 😛