I'll think about buying a CX bike
Cyclops bike or either grab a bike where's the Sun rose by no nobody has today's episode of 5 for
Tuesday's we're gonna be covering the difference between a grapple bike and a cyclocross bike
because there is a difference come on down Tommy so this is a cyclist no this isn't such a fight
they look the same to the untrained eye over the same No what's the difference I don't know what
it has more on today's fight for Tuesday's is actually choose that Norma Tuesday one L penny
because I will be livid I'm gonna talk about why Sarcos bikes are unsuitable for Rhoda commuting
usage can't focus when you're working from that place bunch of cameras and unwilling customers
bike and elk addicts right bye unfortunately very very popular in the commuting realm for
all of the wrong reasons it's a very popular designer bicycle to be used for commuting most
of the fact that most manufacturers had tended to adds rack and mudguard mouths as a as a means
of making them a little bit more utilitarian in form of the lioness's is geared up essentially
for cycle crops now I guess that doesn't really translate to be particularly appropriate for
riding on the road you know to understand why it's an appropriate thing about Cyclops racing
and why Cyclops racing that's decent different road cycling now the average speed on on a cycle
cross World Cup circuit is about 40 kilometers an hour we know this because haven't I researched the
other having an argument about why I cross bytes of [ __ ] on a normal Road right it's
relatively common to be able to clock up over 60 kilometers an hour would you agree the just what
that means is that the the job-driven white like this is designed specifically for the purposes
of writing under $40 an hour so with that in my skull short widow base the head angle is steeper
the top tube is shorter head tube it's shorter the whole thing is generally geared towards low speed
agility than it is about high speed stability and that's kind of where the gravel I think is
going to come in a little bit later on you often hear the arguments about there being more durable
even though they utilize road components I have to say boss I'm a crank on it Road crank it's
got maverick axiom wheels I'm road wheel there's nothing more durable about this bike then there is
about roboy the jogger that's the argument it's out the window leaves what's the point you mind
lies in my opinion there is so if I do choose one of these for Windsor mileage what sort of problems
am I going to encounter riding it think about the general fundamentals of slightly across geometry
it's got a short wheelbase for the low-speed Jersey it's got a tall C tube to make the thing
easier to shoulder so it's a compact it's like cross bracing it's got a high water break it
which increases your center of gravity mostly to reduce sorry to increase ground clearance
for riding off-road I mean cyclist racing is essentially ready on riding a racing bike more
or less off-road when you put that type of whack into a different scenario where you're talking
60 70 maybe 80 concerts an hour high-speed descent for example the things gonna feel a
lot more skittish then then you might find from a traditional route by which kind of leads us on to
talk about gravel bikes now grab a bike so the the latest and greatest buzzword in Road Cycling and I
guess in order to talk about them should probably get one right enter the slightly more modern
humble grab my this is a cheap [ __ ] one this whoo back to be buying France are fundamentally
the same size same price same brand same brand a lot of people online dis question the difference
if there is the difference at all between gravel and cross there is a big difference doesn't matter
which is the geometry mainly almost exclusively so the untrained eye i guess these two bikes
look almost identical but there is a fundamental difference by john cleese seemingly his stemmed
from endurance bike geometry it's the head shapes at all top you shorter geometry is that a little
bit slacker so my 71 after head angle on an average slice by foot then it's got a little
bit more tires tests have this brakes all this fun stuff which it actually makes it incredibly
well suited to british which went to riding and if you've got the ability to take 45 seat i fell on
it so i'm slice an american mogoblin anything that's like a rappers were so and again we're
also starting to see grammar specific products whereas if we go back maybe five years before
the whole grammar craze started all the cyclists bikes and product was still using road components
it's only now that it's starting to see grammar specific composer I mean even Shimano as long
as debris mixed on a specific transmission in a name grx but we're seeing browser specific will
hedges and oversized v8 still takes inspiration from from road bikes you know the height is
similarly slightly longer sorry very good for high speed stability this is the perfect bike
for winter plotting and you know it's wrong that we're talking around this one in the middle of
the bridge winter time but you know bigger tires my dog clearances generally geared towards better
durability it might be the perfect bike as a bike return do you find that gravel whites tend to fit
people quite well these are the high head tubes absolutely there are exceptions to the rule namely
yeah and I'm beaten path it's like a pinata thought my really aggressive yeah I can tolerate
a reasonable position but I end up with like the email of spaces underneath my stem on my opens it
wasn't really like the right bike for probably a man for it I'd buy back online again so there
you go if you're looking for a winter bike gravel bike over cross bike nearly always a better choice
because of the geometry as always with bike for Tuesday's I'll put the link down below to James's
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