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Get a cross bike.
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Either gravel or MTB will be fine on that. MTB can do "more" but some of it will be a bit slower. So it depends what you're after. I love my low gears...
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i really enjoy my weirdo rigid mtb on stuff like this, and conveniently, previously just rode it on a SSCX bike.
it's just enough to travel over stuff like this with less effort, up and down, and get a simulacrum of mountain biking, without risking injury
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You already know my answer
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Make it fixed brakeless and have a proper excuse for being slow.
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#nipplegate
I was out on the weekend getting rad on my SSCX on the trails near the North Downs and even when I bust my ass my avg speed is between 8 - 11mph for a 30-40 mile ride. Should I get a gravel bike? Is it going to enable me to see more trails?
I had a fun gravel bike that got nicked which I replaced with a Pomp at ~52 gi. I'm happy to run up steep hills but that is slower than riding. SSCX to classic gravelbike seems expensive for just a bit of shifting, but is going to XC MTB going to encourage me to get so rad I break another bone? I inherently distrust MTBers. It's for shit like like this:
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