I recently took my 2006 Specialized Tri-Cross bike on a gentle mtb trail: 2 stream crossings, small roots and rocks, light mud, gentle roller-coaster grades. It handled it all just great! The only thing I wished for was a chain-stay guard. I would have been walking steeper hills, but there was nothing on the trail we did that my compact rings couldn't handle. Most of the time I ride it on the kind of stuff described by CA in NC and it's terrific.
There are some 'cross bikes out there these days with triple rings, though. The 2007 Tri-Cross comes with either a double or a triple, if you need more climbing capacity.
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05-24-2007, 08:51 AM #1
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Last edited by Kalidurga; 05-24-2007 at 09:10 AM.
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05-24-2007, 10:36 AM #2
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If you want to do serious mountain biking, stick with your mountain bike. If not and it sounds like maybe you don't want to do serious mtb riding, yes a cyclocross bike will do not too technical mountain biking. Everything off road here in Flag has hills, so I have a triple on my cyclocross bike. It is just too hard to ride a regular double off road here.
For comparison, I do ride a regular double on my road bike just to give you an idea.
For technical, rocky like we have here, there is nothing like a dual suspension mountain bike. YAHOO!
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