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Specialized Tricross Elite disc to be precise.
Nice, it was; not as light or as fast as my carbon roadie but certainly faster than the full-rigid mountain bike. It did everything I asked of it - a few fast road miles down to the Ribble then up onto Longridge Fell and a couple of miles on forestry tracks before cutting back on a BW into the village of Hurst Green. I pumped the tyres up to 80 for the road bit then dropped them for the off road and on checking now I find that I seem to have settled at about 40 as comfortable on stony tracks. I've been abroad for three weeks so by the time I had battled the headwind and hill back home after 22 miles I was feeling well-exercised so with mudguards it will make an excellent winter trainer. Dunno what the average speed was but certainly faster than on an MTB. It feels really stiff in the rear triangle and extremely efficient up hills, with the triple chainset it can cope with most hills and I've changed the Avid BB5 brakes to BB7s, which are just feeling "worn in" now.
The riding position is quite upright and very comfortable. Handling is fantastically steady and smooth. It has panic brakes on the bars but I never touched them and will probably remove them.
It would be the perfect bike for touring or a trailquest event like Polaris, I reckon it would give you a hell of an advantage over other competitors on MTBs, especially any silly enough to be using knobbly tyres.
Will do a longer ride soon and post up a few pics.
nice one, have fun with your new cx, though if i were to run at 40 psi i'd pinch flat in no time at all unless running tubeless or tubular
70 psi everywhere for me,triples have no place on a 'cross bike imho.
I live in the peaks,piss it with a compact.
There's good fun though 😀