Cross Check Gravel Bike

You can use it as a utility commuter touring or road bike.

Cross check gravel bike.

Surly cross check 4130 cro moly cantilever brakes threaded bottom bracket. It s a rough road road bike a cyclocross bike with no pretense about racing a utilitarian townie a light duty touring bike and an all weather commuter. It was a gravel crusher long before gravel bikes existed. Gravel bikes can be ridden almost anywhere on the road and off it.

The soma wolverine being one of those. Surly cross check is a versatile all terrain bike that suits several categories of users serious riders included. It s a dyed in the wool commuter and utility rig. Gravel riding is the hottest thing in the drop bar world.

It s a steel gravel bicycle that thrives on the road. Though we don t necessarily condone that behavior. Steel commuter bike that can do it all. For more on barre s cross check singlespeed see the specs below.

Going back once more to intended use gravel bikes tend to have a greater gear range than cyclocross bikes although this is not always the case. So if gravel bikes are effectively where mountain bikes came from then why not just pick a modern mountain bike. For more gravel bikes see our profiles from lost and found and the dirty kanza 200. Some people have even raced cyclocross on it.

It s longer and lower and slower handling than a true cyclocross bike. There is no such thing as one bike that can do it all but cross check comes pretty damn close. Jay barre s lost and found surly cross check singlespeed specifications. A lot of gravel bikes have riffed the cross check s geo specifically.

Gravel bikes are about getting away from it all image credit. But it still has some cx pep. The cross check was one of the first gravel bikes. It s a day tripper and a weekender.

A gravel bike opens up new routes new terrain and new. The gravel bike is somewhere between these two drop bar off road capable designs. Imagine a gravel tour for example. Or do gravel bikes.

It was designed with that concept in mind. It provides adventure solitude and dirty fun away from heavily trafficked roads. Adventure ready features like disc brakes additional clearance for wider tires and comfortable geometry let these bikes adapt to everything from rugged terrain to winter exploration.