What categories of bike do you own?

[Drago]

I classed both my Spa Audax and Dawes Shadow as "racers" on the grounds that I'm a child of the 70s and anything with drop bars is a racer.

I remember those days. Fredddie's Dad slapped drop bars him his Raleigh 3 speed with 26" wheels, and suddenly he was elevated to that rarefied status of Racer Owner.

I don't seem to recall tourers in the seventies either. As you say, if it had drop bars it was a racer. Simple.

 

[wheresthetorch]

My Dawes Diploma Sturmey Archer 3-speed is sobbing quietly in the garage, behind my road bike and SS. She won't come out until @Drago says he's sorry and that he does value the older generation.

 

[iandg]

Both interesting takes on my own dilemma. I classed my Enigma Etape (designed for loaded touring) as the sportive bike (because it's what I would strip down and ride if I ever were to enter a sportive), the Surly Cross Check as the full on tourer/expedition bike (because, well, hey, it could), the vintage road frame built up with all modern components as the road racer, the Brompton as the folder (d'oh). That leaves the vintage city bike (identical frame as the road racer ) out in the cold.

Except it's far too heavy to race on.

Bought the Cross-Check to 'play' on local trails with the option of using it as a tourer in future. It's definitely too heavy for a CX race bike but it was a lovely ride at the Dirty Reiver.

I've had the Aravis audax/tourer for more than 10 years now and it was my do everything road bike (I also had a fixed work bike and an old rigid MTB).Having bought the Genesis and Cross-Check, they do everything I used to use that for (and more). TBH, it's become surplus to requirement and I'm handing it over to one of my lads - on the positive side (of n-1) it will be loved and ridden and I'm introducing a new recruit to the joy of cycle touring

 

[velovoice]

Bought the Cross-Check to 'play' on local trails with the option of using it as a tourer in future. It's definitely too heavy for a CX race bike but it was a lovely ride at the Dirty Reiver.

I've had the Aravis audax/tourer for more than 10 years now and it was my do everything road bike (I also had a fixed work bike and an old rigid MTB).Having bought the Genesis and Cross-Check, they do everything I used to use that for (and more). TBH, it's become surplus to requirement and I'm handing it over to one of my lads - on the positive side of n-1 it will be loved and ridden and I'm introducing a new recruit to the joy of cycle touring

My CC is my do-everything bike, my daily companion and partner in crime. If I'm up to my neck, so is she.

 

[Deleted member 35268]

Unicycle

 

[mjr]

Trikes, recumbents, other HPVs, unicycles, tandems etc were all on my list, so they didn't get forgotten, I was simply unable to include them

Not unable. You just chose other things in preference. It's because you hate the wobblies and gimps who often use them (well maybe not unicycles), isn't it?

I classed my "light sports" (actually a type of roadster) as a light tourer, but my main roadster has no applicable category. With the popularity of town/city bikes and hybrids these days, it seems like a big mistake to omit them completely.

 

[Drago]

There was no conscious preference. I jotted down a list as they came into my mind, then logged in to CycleChat. I even got as far as Pedaloes on my post it note.

As aforementioned several times now, the omissions are down to the forum, not my willingness or desire to be inclusive, so you may as well save your breath.

Again, as aforementioned, no matter how I rejig the list someone will complain their favourite bike has been left off it.

I'm very sorry, but I can't accommodate any more. I would if I could, but I can not. Time to dry your eyes and move on

 

[raleighnut]

What about Trikes.

 

[vickster]

What about Trikes.

TMN to @numbnuts

 

[raleighnut]

TMN to @numbnuts

His is a recumbent.

 

[vickster]

Except he actually said Trike at post #18 (albeit with a question mark)

 

[mjr]

There was no conscious preference.

Ohhh, so it's OK to discriminate against disabled people and their most-used bike types as long as it's subconscious? Someone let Shane Sutton know!

 

[AndyRM]

Where's the option for velocipede?

 

[Vantage]

I ride a mid weight tourer with 24 gears instead of 30 and modified mudguards and the rack has never carried my panniers.
Where's the category for that kinda bike eh?
Friggin amateurish in my opinion.

 

[Crackle]

I've shoehorned mine into the available categories. Sportive/Audax bike, Front susser 29, and a rigid mtn bike, which is now a tourer but I've put it under rigid mtn bike. I think you're basically onto a loser trying to define the categories.