Hello, how much off-road can you do on a road bike? I actually only drive on normal streets, but sometimes Maps navigates me so badly that I have no alternative but to drive kilometres on bad roads. Very bad. It happened again today. I've ridden through really muddy paths – simply because I was navigated through them. Can a bike like this take it without problems? Or is that dangerous for the ball bearings, for example? When I got home, I cleaned off the coarse dirt as best I could, but I'm a bit afraid that something has got into the mechanics somewhere that I can't reach now.
by Party_Compote_7826
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Nothing to worry about on the bearing sides. These bikes are tough, I went through some very harsh trails over the weekend. A few guys stopped me and were like “you’re doing this without a fork!”
Bike is still butter! Happy riding!
It yearns for the gravel, it’s calling to it from afar…
You can resist, sure, try and fight it all you like.
The tyres will widen, the whisper through the breeze in the trees shall allure your steed forth onto adventures that lie within, the hills shall call you over them into barren wastelands.
The path less traveled, off the beaten track where angels fear to tread and other conveyances falter but there has always been a bike, since the days gone by, whether it was to pop down for a pint of milk, a wobble home from t’pub or just an adventure unto the hills.
Pure, unbridled cycling has found you…
(bearings should be ‘ight)
I’d be worried about grip more than anything.
impressive how clean your shoes stayed 😀
I think you’ve found the limit.
Honestly gravel bikes are underrated. Especially if you have trails like that. Time to upgrade.
I rode a full section of the Fayetteville Traverse mountain bike trail on my aeroad with rim brakes. Would not try again but any bike is a mountain bike if you are brave enough 😂
A lot more than you’d expect. Keep it clean, but don’t use high pressure near a bearing. As long as the trails mostly hardpack like the one in the picture you’ll be fine. If you plan on doing this more often, consider at least a file tread tire like a Panaracer Gravelking or something similar. Don’t really need to consider knobby tires unless it gets loose or actual gravel/rocks, but at that point you’d be better served with a gravel bike for the extra tire clearance.
In the white shoes?!