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The vast majority of my riding is commuting (currently 30km a day, soon to increase to 40km a day). I much prefer my upright, fat tyred Genesis Day One fixed gear for that. I'm thinking that a geared version of the same thing might get more use than a road bike for commuting during the week and pissing about on bridleways at the weekend.
Same boat, only really commuting and want to enjoy my rides more. Dart has got big tyres on it atm and I've just flat barred my Arkose to see how i get on with it. Probably limited to 35's with guards but maybe 42's without and would be a lot zippier then the Cotic.
jono84
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I'm getting more unhealthy thoughts about moving my road bike on and going for something gravel-y instead. I think I've ridden the road bike properly once so far this year. I'm so busy that I rarely have time to get out on a bike at all at the weekend and the last few times I've had the chance, I've gone for a pootle on my mountain bike for a couple of hours.
The vast majority of my riding is commuting (currently 30km a day, soon to increase to 40km a day). I much prefer my upright, fat tyred Genesis Day One fixed gear for that. I'm thinking that a geared version of the same thing might get more use than a road bike for commuting during the week and pissing about on bridleways at the weekend. I had a Cotic a couple of years ago that was basically the same thing I'm describing but it was really heavy and slow so I didn't enjoy it all that much. Is it possible to build a flat bar gravel thing with big tyres, mudguards (would take off for any actual gravel) etc that'll actually be fast and fun on and off road or am I deluded? Cotic below for reference.