My Mrs suggested taht I buy an inexpensive bike in the US and leave it at her folks, so when we go over I'll have something to ride.

Question is – what?

I'm thinking something that's good value – Specialized/Trek etc.. but it's going to have to do anything from road to Moab.

EDIT: Dammit, wrong forum.

where are her folks based? i'd have something for the 'local' stuff.

It'll need to do local stuff but also be taken with us to the far corners of the USA and/or Canada if necessary 🙂

For the local stuff or get a cyclocross..

Giant XTC?

Hardtail and slicks.

Oh and it has to be relatively inexpensive. I was thinking an on-one with lock-down forks or something… but available in the USA.

Cyclocross bike ain't going to be any good in the Rockies is it?

on-one are available in the US, edit: unreal cycles, edit again: do on-one not post to the US anyway.

Giant XTC again. Mine is ace on the road fitted with RC31 forks and kenda small8 tyres, still good for off road too so long as it's not muddy. I also fitted a 25-11(13?) rear cassette for closer gears, again much nicer on the road and still works well off road.

Kev

something like a cotic soul with a spare set of slicks and lockout.

Liking the Cotic idea.

Something like this? I thought jenson would have more available – my thoughts were you could get it shipped from them to the inlaws within the US. They've got some cheap stuff so you might be able to put something together

Not bad.. would be a shame mincing down something really steep on it but anything that would be ace in the mountains would suck on road.. so you are probably right that is middle ground.

Genesis Core, amazing value for money.