I don't even see myself not owning a commuter bike of some sort. The roads around here just get so nasty and I don't clean my bikes that regularly. We'll see how I feel when V1 comes back though as that beautiful Toxik-Harald painted dirty-fade is going to be doing the gravel/commuter/light trail miles.
Actually, that would be the bike - with a second wheelset with 2.8" Vigilantes on CushCore - that would be my MB-1 if I had to choose JUST one bike.
But no, I always see my mountain bike - as much as I ride to the trails - being a complement to my commuter so knobby tires, slack-slack HTA, and whether it's FS or hardtail matters a lot less than in a conversation that's also about commuting.
If it wasn't for my love of single-speeding I could be talked into having an FS bike as my MB-1 rig. It's just my single-speed full-suspension projects have all been meh to date.
Feb. 21, 2022, 2:12 p.m. - Andrew Major
I don't even see myself not owning a commuter bike of some sort. The roads around here just get so nasty and I don't clean my bikes that regularly. We'll see how I feel when V1 comes back though as that beautiful Toxik-Harald painted dirty-fade is going to be doing the gravel/commuter/light trail miles. Actually, that would be the bike - with a second wheelset with 2.8" Vigilantes on CushCore - that would be my MB-1 if I had to choose JUST one bike. But no, I always see my mountain bike - as much as I ride to the trails - being a complement to my commuter so knobby tires, slack-slack HTA, and whether it's FS or hardtail matters a lot less than in a conversation that's also about commuting. If it wasn't for my love of single-speeding I could be talked into having an FS bike as my MB-1 rig. It's just my single-speed full-suspension projects have all been meh to date.