[Closed] Who genuinely has one bike to do it all?

If I had to pick one bike that was the most useful and could handle the most situations, it would be my Saracen Skyline steel tourer. I've taken it out on road club runs (although that really isn't much fun if it's a faster ride), I ride it every day to work, it loves rougher roads and gravel lanes, and I even took it out (once!) on our local gravel night ride.

Failing that, my old XC bike.

If we're just talking off-road, then I think it would be a bike I don't actually have - maybe something like a Cotic Soul.

I have many bikes but my 29 anthem is the one bike that I would keep to do it all.

Until around Xmas, I felt my Voodoo Wazoo fatbike was a fun flat bar "do it all" bike, the FatNotFat 29er wheelset made it so versitile with a swap of tyres to run anything from 27mm road tyres to 2.35" all-rounders (I never did end up buying a dedicated pair of offroaders such as the Smorg/Monkey combo).

But then the freehub seemingly died, I wouldn't always get forward propulsion while pedalling as the pawls wouldn't engage.

It still works as a commuter with the fat wheel and Jumbo Jim on the rear, but it's so much more of a slog, especially uphill on the way home. There's very little chance of me choosing to take it for a 20-30 mile loop on the rural roads, if my road bike is up and running, but it might get a few outings offroad to Cheesefoot Head and/or up and down the Meon Valley Trail.

One bike, a 2017 stumpjumper. Used for commuting, local trails, trail centres and up lift days. It was going to be used on a couple of marathons this year too.

My yt capra is my one bike to do it all. all = local rides, rides along the cycle paths with family, trail centres, uk uplift centres, alps/proper mountains

I do have a bike that could do it all - an old On One ti cross. At various stages of the last 15 years it has.......acted as a non mudguard road/sportive bike, a winter road bike, a panniers front and rear touring bike, what would now be considered to be a gravel riding bike (but back then was a drop bar bike to freak out your mtb friends on a carefully selected mtb route designed to make me shine), an adventure race bike, a pop down the shops bike and of course a cyclocross race bike (inc the 3 peaks).

Of course I'm not that daft - it is one of 6 bikes currently in my collection with wheels and twiddly bits on and another 4 frames hanging around like a bad smell.

Don't let my wife read this post as it undermines everything I've told her for the last 25 years.

Are we allowed more than one wheelset?

If so then I would go for a bombtrack hook ext.

Yep, a mk1 Switchback (on 26") that I use for commuting (we work from home so commuting is dropping the post down to the post office, ~5 mile round trip), long-ish bimbles and a bit of local enduro/DH racing. I do have a few sets of wheels with different tyres (Kenda K-Rads, Conti Trail Kings and Conti Baron/Kaiser) on though, so I suppose that's a [i]bit[/i] of a cheat.

If I had to reduce to one bike it'd be my Soul. It does most of what I want these days.

I don't feel any need for another bike so I guess that fits. Rift zone - done trail centres on it, done long xc rides on it, did ard moors enduro on it, do local exercise / strava'ing on it, ride with the kids on it. I'd replace it with similar but don't feel any need for a +1.

No, but I reckon my stooge mkIV is the one I'd choose if I had a gun to my head. I've done enduro on it, great at trail centres, great for bike packing, had it on the turbo at the start of lockdown, bung fast rolling 29ers on and it is a decent gravel ish option.

It gets out of its depth on really rough and choppy downhill stuff at speed but it's a rigid bike, I'd not take it to the Alps out of choice but it'd work and it'd be a ball ache on out and out road.

In terms of any offroad riding, my Bronson does it all, big mountain days, trail centres, uplifts, local loops, long XC rides, trail centres. It pedals tremendously well and is capable of everything my limited abilities can chuck at it.

I have a flat barred commuter for my short 8 mile jaunt to work, I only consider it a utility, commuting does not = fun to me. 🙂

Err, jist naw. My riding is too varied.

One road bike, one summer mountain bike, one winter mountain bike (which is usually my old summer bike). Summer bike is a short travel 29er used for all the riding I do, and it could probably handle a whole lot more because I'm not very Enduro.

I have many bikes but my 29 anthem is the one bike that I would keep to do it all.

Yep. Me too. Took mine for a road ride yesterday evening and loved it. They're just so damn fast and responsive ( compared to any other MTB I've owned )

Managed just over 17 mph average for the ride, which is insane for a full Suss MTB with knobblies.

If only the seat collar adjustment wasn't so utterly ****in awful, then it would be almost perfect.

I've a road bike (Ribble R872) and a mountain bike (spesh Enduro)

That pretty much covers all my needs

My surly karate monkey does everything I need from a bike, I’ve commuted on it, done road on it (with big apples fitted)
Off road, touring, shopping.
My mate has done all of that on a genesis day one 853, but it actually is his only bike.
I think it’s very much an attitude thing, some folks will use a different discipline as an excuse for N+1, while others will revel in using the completely wrong bike but still managing.

Whyte G160. Commuting to work, 18 miles of road, local Ridgeway riding, local trails, Afan/FoD and BPW and Morzine, yup, it does the lot.

The only thing it doesn't do it turbo training but that's only because the rear axle isn't compatible with my trainer.

i have two bikes that can do it all.
Santa Cruz Highball carbon 29er - handles most of the stuff i have available nearby, especially the techy uphills, downhill involves careful route selection.
Cotic SolarisMAX - handles it all too ... but in the opposite way.

Since ‘no gnar’ I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how versatile my 27+ / 29 x 2.1 rigid bike is. I’d neglected it in favour of flashy full sus and hardtail, but I’ve really enjoyed 90s style mtb riding on it. If I had to have one bike, the Genesis Longitude would be it.

If I had to reduce to one bike it’d be my Soul. It does most of what I want these days.

I can only afford one bike and that’s currently a Gen 5 Soul. Therefore by default it has to be my one bike for everything and it copes with everything pretty well. Off-road, gnarly stuff, bimbling, exploring, long rides, short rides, singletrack, canal towpath, commuting, arsing about and the necessary evil of roads.

I’d like a drop bar gravel thing too, mainly for canal and bridleway mile munching/fitness riding and commuting. Not interested in road riding so two bikes would do it all for me.

Yep, the most bikes I've ever owned at once was 2 and one of them was a full-blooded DH bike I used to use a handful of times a year.

I've always owned 'big trail bikes' 6" bounce both ends. I've got a Bird
Aeries 145LT at the moment, previous was an Intense Tracer, Cove G-Spot, a couple of Lapierre Spicy's and a Spesh Enduro.

I use it for going to the shops, occasional commuting, local XC stuff (I did a 45Km mixed XC / Road loop at the weekend) Trail Centres, BPW and if we can ever travel again the Alps.

It's fine really, droppers and shock lock-outs have made them pretty easy to live with. The only thing that would stop me riding it as an every-day commuter is the cost of the consumables.

My Bird Zero 29 does everything I want, xc rides, downhill trails at Inners, messing about in the woods.

My Rocket Max does a great job as a do it all bikes. Not breaking any world records on the more XC stuff but feels efficient enough. Hauls me up climbs nicely enough and puts a huge grin on my face on the downs. Manages DH uplift days I've done....definitely a case of the rider being the weakest link in the chain there. So a definite all rounder with a slant to the downhill/techy trail stuff.

If I could only keep one, I'd keep my Arkose Alfine. But add a dropper (😱) and change the tyres and get a removable rack/mudguards. All bases covered.

My Norco Optic is my one bike to do all, as its my only bike. But I purchased it with the fact its will be my only bike. Its 140 front 125 rear travel, fairly aggressive/modern geometry.

I ride it for everything, local XC, days at BPW, Surrey hills thrashing, the odd commute, riding with my daughters etc etc. I will also take it to whatever foreign destination I end up going to (the Alps or Finale). I'm happy to be slightly under-biked for a certain amount of my riding.

There is part of me that would like multiple bikes, but every time I think about buying XYZ I rather put the money towards some upgrades for the Optic or going places to ride.

My buddy has a 7k Giant Trance and a 5k Starling Murmur. Depending on where we ride, depends on what he brings, but he isn't any faster on either bike in multiple situations, so it kinda feels pointless at the level of riding we do.

I have one mountain bike to do all my mountain biking. Mk 2 Cotic Solaris, but I do have a different bike for commuting and a road bike as well. So the Cotic isn't completely 'do it all'....

Norco optic I would say is the perfect bike for the UK. I have used mine around the tweed valley since Feb on all the trails, riding around town. Between towns etc. Even the DH farm at Portsoy. Just be careful, it handles it. Then also the 20 mile ride after and your not blown up.

If I had to, my Pickenflick probably. I don't do much road-only miles, but have a second wheelset with 32c slicks on. The other wheelset with 42c gravel tyres would probably be replaced with a 650b wheelset with wider rubber to make it more capable off road (it's still pretty good for most of my local riding).

Would be a bit crap for trail centres, weekends away to the Lakes. But that only happens once or twice a year anyway.

Or, my On One 45650b. Would need gears (currently running SS), a spare rigid fork, a 700c wheelset and spare drop bars so it could be converted into a monster-cross gravel bastard for longer mile-munching mixed surface rides.

Depends on "all" - MTB riding only is easy.

1 bike not really possible if you ride a road chain gang for instance, tho a 2nd set of wheels might do it.

Can the crazy talk! Don’t you know there are some SO’s that peruse this forum at times?!?!

Just one bike? Seriously! 🤷🏻‍♂️

i think about it from time to time. The problem is that anything nice enough to "do it all" is too nice to leave outside the pub.

I've got 4 bikes that could quite easily do me for everything, but the fun is in having the right tool for the right job 😉
Stooge Mk4, Surly Krampus, and DMR Trailstar - these can all do pretty much anything....

...but my Genesis Vagabond - genuinely this can handle anything you want. Swap of tyres needed maybe, but I've done 100+ mile road rides and I've also taken it down arse-puckeringly steep and rooty singletrack.

i have a few bikes but the one that 'does it all' is the Chamois Hagar gravel bike. on blue and easier red type trails its faster than my trail bike, the MTB is obviously quicker once the trails get rough though.
as a guide i did a 95k 'gravel' ride on saturday on local bridleways, singletrack and back lanes then on sunday rode the local woods including local DH tracks, although i did go around the bigger drops and doubles. got me down all the local stuff with a top 10 and top 4 strava time on local trails and 18th/83 on one of the DH tracks

Hell no, hat a terrible idea.
From my current fleet I guess my Kaffenback would be closest but it’d be no fun.

Hmmm, I'd say my currently owned could "do it all" bike is my Stumpy evo as it can go up and down most things on or offroad... But I'm not actually sure I would want that, if I had to do the "only keep one bike" thing, it would actually be my crappy old London Road* as it covers more of the riding I actually do day to day now.
It's alright on the road (most of my miles) and it's adequate offroad. I have better tools for both jobs but neither covers both and there would be a cessation to any Gnarr, but I could live with just that one bike...
*(a few upgrades would be beneficial)

If I had to chop them all in for a totally new one bike to "do it all" I'd be torn between something a bit more 'monstercrossy/gravelish' and a Carbon 29er HT with a dropper and ~5" travel forks that can lock out...

Ive used my cross bike for everything if that counts?

Off road in the Chilterns is all rideable (if not the quickest downhill) on it, ive done road rides in groups (just choose the group carefully) and commuted on it.

But I do also have an MTB, commuter and road bike (and a fat bike and a SSCX/winter road/commuter thing but they're for sale).

I have a 1989 Kona Lavadome set up with drop bars on which I have in the last few years with just a change of tyres: Toured on the road in Canada, Alps and Pyrenees, bikepacked in Scotland, commuted, ridden DH tracks in Vermont, ridden blacks at various trail centres and done big MTB loops.

Admittedly it was better at some of that than others and not ideal for any of it but I enjoyed doing all of those things on it.

Current stable is:

Cannondale FSi carbon 29er hardtail
Santa Cruz Highball 29er hardtail
Bombtrack Audax 650 "adventure" road
1956 George Whitlow 531 tourer
1990 653 Cougar roadbike with d/t shifters

If someone said "you can only keep one" it would have to be the George Whitlow for sentimental reasons (it was my Dads), but then I'd be stuffed for most of my riding! Putting that aside, if I could only keep one for practical reasons, it would probably be the Highball.....

I do/did, (then fell off the wagon), but only if you define ‘all’ as a ‘compromise in all except compromise’

(With loop bars and 2x10) my ‘do it all’ is a Genesis Longitude MK1

Then it comes down to tyres. A lot depends on those. I keep three pairs of tyres to ‘do it all’

WTB Prowler SL (winter MTB)
Conti Race King Protection (summer, gravel, mixed, bikepacking, all-rounder)
35c Schwalbe Landcruiser (Road and gravel-touring

The Contis tend to live on there most of all. For me it’s a bother to often change tyres, and I tend to have bad luck pinching tubes in the process.

I thought about a second set of wider wheels to open up the 29+ option and keep shod with MTB tyres, but in the end it was (far) more economical to buy a 26er hardtail from classifieds and also a classic tourer from a retired bike-mechanic.

So £180 later, my one bike became three.

Now the Longitude sort of feels redundant (until I can get to go bikepacking with friends) as the touring bike is better, more comfortable, and much faster for all local lugging. The tourer is better of course, at road-touring and commuting. On 28c Marathons it flies over moderate gravel too, with room to go to 35c by the look of it

The hardtail is obviously better for fun in the woods etc.

So yeah, the ’compromise’ bike was useful until I saw opportunities that I could afford.

If (and I may have to)there is a need to go back to one bike then I’d really have to choose between the old tourer and the Longitude. This is because I customarily use a bike for transport and utility. MTBing for me is a luxury, whereas a doitall wasn’t. A rigid 29er is in my opinion the most adaptable bike.

During this current crisis my heart and arse seem to be getting set on the classic steel tourer. Never saw that coming. Just invested in some bar-tape, so it has to be serious!

I have one bike currently - its a road bike. Its not very good off road. It is soon to be replaced, it might be with a gravel bike but i think yiu get a lot more bike for your money with an xc 29er. Basically to get decent brakes on a gravel bike you like you need to spend £1.5k. That amount on a 29er gets you so much more.

A rigid 29er is IMO the most adaptable bike

I agree.

I've got a Longitude set up for fixed off road (yes, I know) just now but with gears I reckon I could happily do most things with it.

Rigid 29er here. To be honest it's the only bike of my 4 that I'm really riding. I'm still using one other but it's a cargo bike and that's only for running errands. Rigid 29er is getting ridden for fun local stuff, but it's also my only MTB

After having my 6 bikes stolen last summer, me!

So I have one bike, for all reasons. An all road (seems more fitting than gravel) bike.

*Technically I have a retro MTB project a friend gave me but it isn’t finished yet.

I have one - the gravel bike - that could do it all, with different tyres. Well, except track, they disapprove of things like brakes, gears and freewheels for some reason.

Obviously I still have a road bike and a hardtail as well

but my Genesis Vagabond – genuinely this can handle anything you want.

It is a very versatile (and comfortable) bike. I miss mine tbh. Would happily take a 29er Longitude or a Vagabond as a doitall bike. Such bikes are IMO much like the more decent of those 90s ATBs (except now with discs, bigger wheels, better tyres and more standover)

Jacks of all trades. Masters of bikepacking.

In terms of off road riding the likes of a vagabond clearly cannot handle 'anything you want' btw, try taking it down even the tamest of munros, or the Lakeland passes, it ain't happening. Sure, it'll be a few mph quicker on a fire road than a MTB, but for any kind of techy riding, there's no way that type of bike is a do it all.

Unless your Akrigg, and none of us are! 🙂

I have a singlespeed rigid 26" MTB (Inbred) and a 2x9 Cyclocross bike with 40mm tyres (Cotic X) and have ridden the same rides on both of them - from local road loops to long days out.

I have niggles with both bikes and keep looking for one bike to replace them both. I'd like to keep the option for bigger tyres of the MTB and the gears of my cross bike so am tempted by something like a 650b Planet-X Bootzipper running Geoff bars plus an extra set of 700c wheels with biggish road/gravel tyres.

Edit: Or an old Genesis Longitude. Oooh, or a TD-1.

As my riding includes: road / gravel / trail / bike parks there is clearly no bike that will do it all well. I have a few bikes because they fit a need rather than just me being a bike tart ;-/

If i had to have only one it would be my hightower as that covers the fun trail / bike park side.

I'd then cheat and bring back the road bike for sunny solo days.

And the tandem for sunny days with the missus.

So no, it cant be done.

I have 3 bikes:
Commuter - old On One Scandal mtb
MTB - Santa Cruz Tallboy 2
Road - Volagi Liscio

I just chose one of those depending on what I am doing.

I'm hoping my new 29er scandal will fit everything I want to do after I get one last big alpine road ride out of the way. Should be fine for pub, commuting, bike packing and Swinley /Surrey Hills mtb.

My old Scandal mkII was probably the closest to a new be bike deal. Hardtail with lockout, commuted, xc rides from the house, trail centres and some races. The only reason I got rid of it was because I had loads of other bikes more appropriate to each task.

I have many bikes, the one that could come closest to doing it all is the Jeffsy CF Pro - with maybe a tyre swap between 2.4s and 2.1s depending on the gnar. But if you said I had to choose just one, it would probably be the Sanderson Soloist rigid SS and I'd just redefine what "it all" meant.

If I could only keep 1 of my three bikes it would be the Arkose X even though its the cheapest. I also have a 140mm hardtail and a fatbike.

The Arkose can do most things from 100km mixed loops and fairly steep singletrack to bimbling with the family and touring. The hardtail (26er) is not ideal for anything other than singletrack and I wouldn't want to ride the fatbike on the road much.

If I had to have only one bike, I'd sell all three and get a titanium short travel 29er - I reckon that could do almost everything I need a bike for. I'd have to walk to the pub though if they ever open again.

Only bike I have is a Santa Cruz Nomad 2. Want to replace it with a Transition scout now through.

Closest thing to a "do it all" mountain bike in my mind is a Five. the "porsche" school of design helps.

i consolidated my 100mm Trance that was great uphill, but hard work on "proper" descents, and my Patriot66, which was a great little Sled, but a push on the ups into one easy payment of "never going to win any races, but will handle downhill tracks and big XC days."

Nicolai Helius, 2009 model. It's just great.

Yeah my giant reign. I ride everything and everywhere on it

I have 1 bike that could theoretically do it all for my trail riding needs, I just choose to have 3 others to do certain things better.

If I had to just have one bike, it would be the burliest I could find (for trips to The Peak, Lakes, Wales, etc.) that would still be bearable round my local woods' singletrack and on bridleway 'gravel' rides. That would probably be my recently retired Rocket (which I rode everywhere on) or soon to be christened RocketMAX. That's a heart decision though, head would say my Sonder Transmitter is actually a way better all round bike, capable of everything from full gnar (albeit a bit slower than either Rocket) to a bit of bikepacking or touring, especially with a set or two of alternative wheels.

Well i have two bikes to do it all..

My giant contend sl road bike is great. With a nice set of wheels on it it's good for big sunday rides and is inconspicuous enough to commute and leave locked up at work. It also has full rack and mudguard mounts for winter duty.

On the mountain bike side, my Whyte S-150 is about as close as you can get to a do it all mtb in my opinion. I've done the dyfi winter warm up on, raced ard rock and made it down the Champery world cup track on it. Of course it's not as fast as an XC or DH bike for those applications it can genuinley do it all. 130-150mm travel 29er is the sweet spot imo.

That's like asking who has one pair of shoes that can do all. No. One for the mud, one for work, one for the dancin etc

Yep.... only own one bike.... Spesh Enduro.
Does everything I need it to do.

I'm down to one bike at the mo (if you don't count a second hand Kona Minute shopper/ kid hauler) as I've sold a couple to pay for a new bike soon. Sold a cotic escapade and an one one fatty and am left with a 27+ genesis longitude with jones bars on it. Its a lovely ride and it could be pretty close to a do it all bike. I used to use the escapade as a road bike/ gravel bike/ pull the kids chariot/ back of the camper van bike/ rack and panniers for shopping on holiday etc but the longitude can do all that as well and it's quite nice to ride on single track as well. Surprisingly so.

I've been looking at do it all bikes and I reckon where I live and the cycling I do now a Bombtrack Hook EXT (C) is pretty much all the bike I need. A set of 700c wheels and the 650b's with decent rubber for off road and I'd be all set for most things.

Bit too nice to leave outside the pub or shops though...

I have a 2018 Fuji Cross 1.7, and as I long as I could either have two wheelsets, or at least the ability to change tyres at will, would probably serve well as a 'one bike to do it all' bike.

But this would be under duress, you understand. In truth, you would have to rip my road bike from my cold, dead hands...

I've run a trail FS and trail HT since 2003. Sometimes the HTs were single speed or fancy Ti, sometimes nice and cheap from on-one. The FS was always boutique and as fancy as I could afford - mainly a long string of Oranges and Turners.

HTs have always been the second bike, but the advent of well designed 29er HTs, dropper posts and utterly sorted modern forks have rather changed my outlook in recent years.

I don't have to have one bike, but If I did, it would be what I have now - A Pole Taival, the most competent of a string of competent 29er hardtails, or a Kingdom Vendetta. My FS is so good it dulls nearly all my local spots for most of the year, and 90% of my riding is at those spots. I don't want to be bored mtbing.

With current lifestyle a light, mildly but not too slack (probably 650b) hardtail with (ideally) a choice of rigid fork with boss mounts for anything cages etc and 120mm suspension fork. It'd have to have a BSA BB (no press fit nastiness) and double/triple ring capability for the easy bits.

What I've actually got is a mid travel 29r fs, a heavy steel 26r hardtail and a road bike. None of which are worth much and I'm trying to ride the bloody things into the ground but not easy under lockdown and too much work.

I had two bikes, all bases covered for me, Cotic Flare for all my MTB needs, and a Genesis CDA gravel bike for commuting, road rides, bimbling. Never really loved the Genesis, crap brakes, cheap drivetrain, quite heavy, so sold it.

Just building one of these new Scandals, plan to use it in winter, on tamer rides, on mixed surface rides, bikepacking, MTB marathon events, maybe an XC race or 2, and as my pop to the shops bike. The flare having a dropper and no room for a frame bag kind of kills it for bikepacking, and can't help feeling very over biked and carrying to much weight when bimbling at 130mm travel and 31lb.

My Dad's just given me a fully functioning (due to my prior donation of tyres and servicing) 90's Marin mtb, though don't know if it'll get used.

I would like another gravel bike it turns out, but would have to be a decent, light one, with hydraulic brakes and light tubeless wheels etc. Roads where I live are always in terrible condition, gravel bike just makes sense, I think, but I've thought that before.

So for several months I've only had 1 bike, now I have 2.75, and might have 4 by end of summer. Oops.

Agree with several others though, if I could only have one bike - rigid 29er with front mech capability.

In answer to op, yeah I do but it's four, but I can only ride one at a time, and they do all I want.

Singular Gryphon was probably the one I had that could get close to doing it all albeit in a slightly compromised way. Sold it though because I didn't need one 'do-it-all' compromised bike at that point. Jones is probably the one, looks weird (weirder) with skinny tyres but surprisingly nimble.

Road touring

Gravel

Trail centre (black descent, match)

Local trails

(Previous bike) Alps
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If I had to have one bike, I'd change my definition of "all". Currently "all" is everything from Alps/Lakes MTB to long, hilly road rides, via CX and a bit of TTing. I could ride all of that on one bike, but I wouldn't enjoy most of it.

If I had to choose one, it'd be my winter road bike (Kinesis 4S disc) as it's the bike that I can enjoy riding from my door pretty much every day of the year.

I only ever own one bike at a time (don't know why just a hangup/mental thing) so whatever bike I have is my do it all bike. For the majority of the last 20 years that one bike has been a fixed gear bike. Sometimes get a geared bike for a few months and just last year got a modern geo hardtail but I always go back to the simplicity of a fixed gear bike.

In terms of off road riding the likes of a vagabond clearly cannot handle ‘anything you want’ btw, try taking it down even the tamest of munros, or the Lakeland passes, it ain’t happening. Sure, it’ll be a few mph quicker on a fire road than a MTB, but for any kind of techy riding, there’s no way that type of bike is a do it all.

I really beg to differ. With a change of tyres - a chunky 2.4/2.5 up front and a 2.25 at the back it'll go up and down anything. Not fast DH necessarily, but rideable, and fun.

Yeti ARCc is my do it all bike.

I use it locally in the South Downs, used it at Bike Park Wales, rode it when I did the Tuscany Trail and also used it for a week with BasqueMTB.

<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Think that covers it as a one bike that does it all!</span>

I really beg to differ. With a change of tyres – a chunky 2.4/2.5 up front and a 2.25 at the back it’ll go up and down anything. Not fast DH necessarily, but rideable, and fun.

Let's see ye riding Wharnscale on one then! 🙂

I'm always up for a challenge 😉 might put a dropper post on for that though.

For anything that isn't tarmac my Soul does me just fine - swapping tyres between some 2.6 and some skinny 2.1s makes a huge difference for local tame canal paths/ fields or the 2.6s for the peaks / lakes

The one I ride least, my Trek Superfly.

It's doubled up as MTB (obviously), very capable gravel bike with some 40c almost slicks, on longer gravel rides with long road sections it has trucked along quite happily (not chain gang fast, but not dis-spiritingly slow either), it's been a CX racer, commuter and currently functions as child lugger-abouterer.

But of course, as I spend most of my time on road now and have three bikes for that purpose (winter, shoulder season, summer 😀 ) I rarely ride the poor Superfly.