a countryside bicycle
I like this. See also VTT.
So many painful terms taking off… often for things that are genuinely useful. This “agro-gravel”, a short travel head down hardtail, is ideal for most people getting into a bit of off road riding across most of the UK… but without a name (however much we hate the name) how do you let people know that? For the money, any longer travel full suspension bike would be far inferior to this for most people’s needs across whole areas of England in particular. So, now you have this type of bike (again), how do you describe it to people in a meaningful way? You can say it’s “just a bike”… but they all are.
I hate “downcountry”, but again, for a hell of a lot of people, those bikes are ideal for most of their riding. It’s a genuinely good category with an awful joke name. But what should they be called? You can say it’s “just a bike”… but they all are.
The term I hate most, and it’s applied to 2 of the most useful (for me) things to happen to bikes, the “Mullet”, really does my head in. But 29er front wheels rule… and don’t need pairing with 29er rear wheels to offer an advantage. What do you call this bike, if not the god awful Mullet name? And pairing road STi with MTB cassettes and rear mechs and 1x chainsets. Again, I’ve been running this for years, and for any drop bar bike you take off road on actual hills it transforms the bike… but it also uses that awful name. But what name would you use instead?