[Closed] Using my roadbike for bridleway riding?

Yes they'll be fine.

You'll be fine. I'm currently using my old road bike with normal road wheels, calliper brakes and 25mm road tyres off road and it is an absolute hoot. Not fast and very bumpy but for pure grin factor it's awesome.

I did Tour of the Black Country sportive on a Trek Domane with Bontrager Race wheels. Plenty of bridleway sections and it managed fine.

You might find the rims are quite narrow (you'll get a bigger footprint with a wider rim) but unless you do something silly you'll probably pinchflat before the wheel goes.

Don't know how the rim width compares to the Bontranger Race, but my favorite off road wheel is an Aksium which will fit a 35mm knobbly with no problem.

sounds great so far ... didn't fancy the expense of changing the wheels.

Thanks everyone

Steve

Tricross will cope with all sorts. Especially with right tyres, tubes and pressure. I road lots of goddawful cobbles, farm tracks, rutted gravel and stuff on the Cheshire Classic yesterday - carbon road bike, regular 23 tyres. Just checked they were pumped up.

It'll be fine; I've ridden red grade trail centre stuff on a cross bike with 35mm tyres.

Is the tricross not a cx bike, so built for going off road really? I'm sure it'll be fine.

It'll be fine, I used to use my CX bike at Ashton Court all the time, with Race X Lite wheels, they're now on my road bike, could do with new rims after 7 years!

MrNice, I did that ride too, cracking wasn't it?

Good to know .... I'm not worried about the tricross itself or the forks as they're EC90X's ... just the wheels really.

I've just got some 35mm conti cx tyres so hopefully they will be fine.

Thanks all

Steve

I also did the Tour of the Black Country on a PX Pro Carbon with tubeless wheelset, I recced the route the week before with Schwalbe 25mm tyres which was ok but on the actual day of the event I rode 28mm tubeless and was able to go much faster and finished the ride a lot fresher as the vibration riding 25mm can get quite tiring on a big ride. From a personal point of view if your going to ride your road bike off road I would definitely recommend going tubeless as it makes it just that bit more comfy and less fatiguing and obviously less chance of snakebiting. I'm now hooked on riding my road bike off road !

Before going back to an MTB at start of this year I was riding a fixed track bike off road for a few years (on all the same routes as use an MTB for)

I was running 24c tyres and light wheels and it was fine. In fact it was so fine that I can't compete with my own PBs on Strava now I am using an MTB (although the MTB is far more comfortable and a lot more fun on twisty bits or fast downhill)

of course! see here for inspiration...

http://ritcheylogic.com/content/news/tom-ritchey-a-tribute-to-jobst/

I've ridden Cannock on a hybrid commuter with V's - fine in the dry ..

I rode from London to Llanberis last year (over 5 days) on a Giant Defy 1.
The route included a lot of canal towpaths (all through Birmingham) cobbles and dirt tracks.
The bike was fine except for the rear wheel needing re-tensioning at the end, however this is more likely to be because I'm 100KG with no finesse..

unge - Member
You'll be fine. I'm currently using my old road bike with normal road wheels, calliper brakes and 25mm road tyres off road and it is an absolute hoot. Not fast and very bumpy but for pure grin factor it's awesome.

Can't help thinking that sounds like absolutely no fun whatsoever.

Sure you can 🙂

If I was able to rock old Peugeot across southern BDW you would be more than fine 🙂

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Cheers!
I.

haha i've been venturing out on to the canal tow paths with my pro carbon with 23c slicks at 100+ psi, it's bloody hilarious, especially when it gets to <2ft wide and rutted

^^ It's all skilz init 😉

interesting to see how many of us did the ToBC. was a really good day out, and nice to do something a bit different

Can't help thinking that sounds like absolutely no fun whatsoever.

Depends on what you find fun I suppose. It's not fast, you're not getting air and your arms get an absolute hammering. But, I do find perverse pleasure in picking lines and generally trying to navigate something that you arguably shouldn't be doing on that bike. I don't have many really tough trails in my area so this is a good way of making tame trails interesting.

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That's the stuff Flashy. There was an interesting piece by Charlie the Bike Monger [url= http://singletrackmag.com/columns/2015/05/the-bikemonger-oi-not-that-one/ ]here[/url] about the fight between "need bigger bike to go faster" and "need tougher, more technical trails". I've now gone full circle and am riding a rigid, drop bar bike down tame trails which have now become hard and technical again. I like it a lot and it saves me driving for miles to find tougher terrain.

What tyres are you running on the Diverge Flashy?

that was exactly the situation on that ToBC. Sections that would have been boring on the mtb became a whole lot more interesting in the drops with narrow tyres.

You could tell the riders with mtb experience on that ride - I yo-yoed with one group all morning as they overtook me on the tarmac then I got past while they minced along the off-road bits.