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Long distance bike advice

  • 17-06-2009 1:12pm
    #1
    richiemack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭


    A couple of us are looking at a 3,000km ride across Europe, taking about 4/5 weeks to complete it. Would it be advisable for us to use touring bikes instead of our road bikes?We're both used to our road bikes, and I know that we could get panniers to fit. Never ridden a touring bike but would imagine it would slow us down if we were to achieve the distances we wanted. Any advice


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  • #2
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    If you are comfortable with the road bike and can keep it light just stick with that. There is no real advantage to a tourer other than the clearances for wider tyres/mudguards and better stability with a heavy load. They can be more relaxed but you don't need this if you are comfortable already on the road bike.

    Try it out maybe for a weekend in Ireland first so you have an idea what it will be like loaded.

    Keeping it light is the key.


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