I recently moved to Germany for the next two years. This meant two things: I had to leave my big pile of bike parts that I'm constantly swapping behind, and I only brought one bike with me (for now). I've only got my gravel bike with centerslick 38mm tires when I'm used to having a fat bike and a 140mm plus tire hardtail. The past month has been educational as to what it can do - it struggles in mud and I have to very carefully unweight the tires when I'm going over roots to avoid bonking the rims, but it does pretty well in 90% of use cases! I'm enjoying riding it in thoroughly inappropriate places.
Oct. 6, 2022, 12:19 a.m. - TristanC
I recently moved to Germany for the next two years. This meant two things: I had to leave my big pile of bike parts that I'm constantly swapping behind, and I only brought one bike with me (for now). I've only got my gravel bike with centerslick 38mm tires when I'm used to having a fat bike and a 140mm plus tire hardtail. The past month has been educational as to what it can do - it struggles in mud and I have to very carefully unweight the tires when I'm going over roots to avoid bonking the rims, but it does pretty well in 90% of use cases! I'm enjoying riding it in thoroughly inappropriate places. 