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Who cares, just helpful to some terms to describe the sort of riding the bike is aimed at. If you don't like it then just call all bikes a bike and ignore what others are calling them.
Go to the bike shop and say I want a 'bike'
What sort of bike sir?
Just a 'bike'
What will you be using it for?
Just riding, just want a bike
Get out of my shop you timewaster
downgravel
Be very careful making jokes. Predatory marketing people have been know to lurk on forums. You could be inadvertently conceiving entirely new categories of riding bikes in which case you are responsible for them until they reach maturity.
Unless it's not a joke, I can't really tell anymore
Get out of my shop you timewaster
I doubt that would ever happen if there is a sale to be had.
Going through this thread there seems a whole heap of fun taking the right bike or perhaps even more fun taking a slightly out of niche bike on any terrain...
If you has the skillz, innit...
I've probably said it on other threads (maybe even this one) but my gravel bike is the best road bike I've ever had, and my old hardtail 29er (now with rigid forks) makes a very good gravel bike.
This shifting means my old road bike can get sold off, maybe replaced with a modern MTB
Get out of my shop you timewaster
I doubt that would ever happen if there is a sale to be had.
You've never been in local bike shop, have you? Working there is simply a reason to browse Pinkbike, drink coffee and complain about idiot customers who don't know the difference between MaxTerra Evo and MaxGripppp Evo2, or who bring used bikes in for a service. Sales are the last thing they want because that means they'll have to work out how to open a till and print a receipt. ;D
Going through this thread there seems a whole heap of fun taking the right bike or perhaps even more fun taking a slightly out of niche bike on any terrain…
I have ridden locally in same area for 20 years and ridden the same bits of road, gravel, singletrack on whatever bike I have at the time which ranges from geared hardtail, single speed rigid to brakeless fixed gear. They are all fun to ride.
Red bike and the willingness to learn a potentially unsettling or life-changing truth or the all trail smashing full on Enduro sled down the trails you always ride, blue bike...
Red bike or blue bike. Do you gravel, bro?
Red bike or blue bike. Do you gravel, bro?
😁
Since I started this thread, my boy has now turned 10 and prefers his curly barred bike over his mountain bike. He mostly uses it for CX training and racing though.
Gravel riding might be your truth, but its not my truth.
I’ve tried it, it’s not for me, but loads of my friends love it. But then I have very limited time and what to get as much fun in as I can rather than nice long days out pootling around the country with the odd bivvy or camp out.
Maybe in a few years I’ll take it up when the kids are older and I have more time. It’s taken me 25 years of riding to finally embrace XC (although it’s mainly riding up to enjoy the downs)