I’ve had my cross bike for 7 or 8 years. I bought it because there are some okay trails about 20 mins ride away, everything else is a drive. I thought it would be great for exploring and nipping out when I didn’t have time to do a proper MTB ride.

It’s covered 500km in that time. And now it looks like this

[url=https://flic.kr/p/22gTnR5]Well that looks fun..[/url] by Alex Leigh, on Flickr

And that’s only because I monged my ankle and couldn’t ride MTB for two months. It’s not been used since the injury cleared up.

I reckon at least some of the reason is I don’t like riding on my own much. And the rest of the reason is when I’m riding trails on the CX bike I know I’d prefer to be on the MTB.