You ever ride a road bike? It's fun as fuck and it's fast as fuck. Or easy as fuck if you're going slower. And the only reason this is not exactly feasible for everyday transport is because everywhere spents a gajillion moneys on keeping highways smooth for people in cars instead of fucking bikes. You have 4 fat ass wheels, sophisticated suspension and everything you don't need this shit. I wanna roadbike everywhere ffs.
Now you might say oh the geometry is not relaxing but you know what? Upright-style dutch bike, except 22mm tyres. Nigh 0 rolling resistance. Only impossible due to shit infrastructure planning
The recent gravel trend seems to me largely influenced by the fact that any and all bicycle paths or MUPs have degraded or are built to such a standard that you can't actually ride them on a full-on roadbike anymore honestly.
And it's not even wrong. There's like 2 routes I can take with my roadbike from where I live if I don't hop on a train to do it because everything that's not for the car is in such shit condition
I’ve been looking at gravel bikes for this exact reason. Road bikes are so much fun, but my city barely maintains the roads any more.
Yeah same. Basically scouting for 90s MTB-Frames to just build one atm because premade ones are prohibitively expensive atm