rkelsen wrote:barefoot wrote:For my disc-road bike...
Calling that bike a "road" bike is being a bit loose with the terminology. It is a nice bike, but it has the clearances of a tractor, not those of a road bike.
Oh, please carry on and explain why a bike with road gearing and road geometry is not a road bike?
It usually wears 25s, and the vast majority of it's use is on road bunch rides.
(that's after I fitted my new triple crank - mostly so I could have a more road-friendly 39T ring, for undulating roads, without losing out on serious climbing gears).
There's not a lot of difference between a road bike and a CX bike. The most obvious is brakes, but if we're talking disc-road v disc-CX that's a non-issue. The other differences are more subtle.
CX bikes tend to have longer chainstays and a high BB. I designed this one with fairly short chainstays and low BB - lower than many road bikes, actually.
CX bikes tend to have cables routed along the top of the top tube, thus requiring either a top-pull front derailer or a cable pulley. I designed this one with standard downtube cable routing.
Yes, I made sure it has ample tyre clearance. So is that your distinction between road and not-road? Road bikes must have arbitrarily limited tyre clearance? Strange, they never used to until about 10 years ago.
Should I install some kind of restrictor plates on my stay bridges to reduce tyre clearance and turn it into a proper road bike?
Seriously though... terminology is not such a big deal, and if I wanted a bike that neatly fitted into ANY category, I wouldn't have built this one
tim