Kirstie
Über Member
By the way, you could go off road on that bike, it just depends on the kind of off road you do. There are a lot of military roads and drovers roads across scotland which are traffic free and quite well surfaced. They are marked as doubletrack on an OS map. If you want to check out what they are actually like on the ground, use the 'geograph' website.
I ride my ultragalaxy on fairly rough tracks with a load on it, on 35mm schwalbe marathon racers and it's fine. They are the kind of tracks which would not be worth doing on a mountainbike, but are actually quite fun on a tourer. eg:http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrmichaelwright/4511204555/sizes/m/in/set-72157623832236860/
I ride my ultragalaxy on fairly rough tracks with a load on it, on 35mm schwalbe marathon racers and it's fine. They are the kind of tracks which would not be worth doing on a mountainbike, but are actually quite fun on a tourer. eg:http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrmichaelwright/4511204555/sizes/m/in/set-72157623832236860/