Ian H
Ancient randonneur
Who says 'tourer' (for instance) refers only to upright?
When riding for pleasure which bike type do you use the most?
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Who says 'tourer' (for instance) refers only to upright?
a.twiddler
Veteran
It could take a bit of time to herd up all the different categories and corral them all and even the there are bound to be stragglers. It might even just boil down to make and model.
llamafarmer
Active Member
Tricky one..... They are all pleasurable in thier own way. I ticked the Touring ( converted hardtail ) because that usually means Holidays/away days.
Road bike is great for getting lycra'd up and getting the miles in.....Full sus for when it gets gnarly... like i say, all pleasurable.
Road bike is great for getting lycra'd up and getting the miles in.....Full sus for when it gets gnarly... like i say, all pleasurable.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Why aren't the categories subdivided by colour? That would make much more sense.
DCBassman
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Absolutely, red ones are always faster!Why aren't the categories subdivided by colour? That would make much more sense.
Ming the Merciless
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One would question whether a particular recumbent model could fall into such a classification, and exactly what it meant. It tends to be road bikes that are put into narrow classifications such as tourer. A single recumbent could do racing, touring, off road etc etc.
One could argue that an upright racer is just a poorly designed restricted upright tourer.
Alex321
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Many uprights could also do all of those. At least "light" off road, plus racing & touring. You might want to change the tyres for different purposes.
Putting them into so many different categories is more about marketing than any real need, except at the highest competitive levels. Most bikes are more adaptable than their marketing classification would suggest.
Ok, you aren't going to be doing red or black mountain bike trails on an average road bike, but I don't think you would on an average recumbent either.
I don't think recumbents are necessarily inherently more general-purpose, I'm sure that if there was a big enough market, specialist versions would be developed for racing/touring/off-road etc, and as with uprights, most will do all of those but not quite as well as the specialist ones would.
One could indeed. But at the highest level of racing, it will outperform the "tourer". And then people who aren't at that highest level want them for aspirational reasons, and of course the marketing people encourage that.
Which then leads into the "n+1" mentality, where people who can afford it buy multiple bikes for different types of cycling.
Those of us who can only afford one bike make it do everything.
Jameshow
Veteran
Where?!!😍
youngoldbloke
The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
Really?
youngoldbloke
The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
Ian H
Ancient randonneur
I recall a guy called Zac riding something similar to this in the 99 PBP - not a tourer, I think you'd agree.
Ming the Merciless
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I recall a guy called Zac riding something similar to this in the 99 PBP - not a tourer, I think you'd agree.
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I don’t think this is a tourer either 🤣
Ian H
Ancient randonneur
Well no, it's not even designed for tarmac.
mustang1
Guru
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I wanted to vote road and MTB but I cannot so I went with MTB because I ONLY ride that for pleasure. The road bike is a combination of pleasure and needing to go pleasurable places.
mustang1
Guru
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- London, UK
Hey what about my downhill aero fat MTB mullet e-bike with Tri bars? Hello anyone in Marketing... Will you guys be trying to sell us one of those when you are completely out of ideas? 
