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    What type of bike would you choose for this ride?


    50% pavement 40% gravel and the last 10% shown above. The ride climbs about 5000ft and the last 1200ft looks like this?

    I have a gravel bike (Crust Bombora) and a mountain bike (Transition Sentinel) but I feel like none of them would do well on this kind of ride.

    I know the Crust really struggles (or maybe it’s just me) on this stuff

    by Larix-24

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    2. Former_Mud9569 on

      if that’s just piles of loose shale, probably no bike is going to be fun. especially descending. I’d go with at least a 2″ mtb tire.

    6. chrissb34 on

      For that terrain? At least a 2″ XC MTB but if it were me, i’d never attempt it on anything else but a full suspension bike and even on that, it’s gonna be rough.

    8. No_Improvement_5358 on

      MTB with plus size tires, or even a fat bike. You need large volume to be able to float over that stuff.

    19. pongauer on

      Just take the gravel bike.

      Yes, this bit is going to be hard. Deal with it. No need to do the rest of the ride with a bike build for just this bit.

    21. MariachiArchery on

      I mean, this is going to suck on like anything other than a fat bike. And even on a fat bike, it’s not going to be enjoyable to ride.

      >50% pavement 40% gravel and the last 10% shown above.

      For this, I’d want to be on that Bombora. Anything with 50% pavement should be a gravel bike, honestly.

    22. MrPolymath on

      Mountain bike with faster rolling tires, may e air down a little on the shale. Play it (roll it?) by ear.

    28. the1eyeddog on

      I’d ride my gravel bike for this route for sure. The 10% will be zero fun on any bike so I’d take the advantages of the gravel bike for the 90% road/gravel and hike-a-bike the 10% that looks like this.

      There’s sections that look exactly like this in areas I like to bikepack and I’ve done them on both my gravel bike with 47’s and hard tail mountain bike with 2.25’s. Gravel bike was more enjoyable all around.

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