A Short History of the Off-Road Bike (Part 4)
Contrary to the trend of the last decades the mountain bike surprisingly seems to be losing its appeal. At the same time, the road bike for unpaved roads is just being reinvented as a “Gravel Bike”…
Contrary to the trend of the last decades the mountain bike surprisingly seems to be losing its appeal. At the same time, the road bike for unpaved roads is just being reinvented as a “Gravel Bike”…
When the road racing machine was the bike of the time, the modern mountain bike emerged and it is now probably the most prominent type of bicycle built specifically for riding off-road.
If you enter a bike shop or click through current offers of bicycle manufacturers, it is very likely that you encounter “Gravel” or “Adventure Bikes”. They are touted as a new kind of bike: They look like racing machines…
History shapes cycling in our everyday lives in many ways. The roads and paths on which we are travelling exert a particularly sustainable form of influence. With slight regional deviations, most of the current road infrastructure is geared towards motorised private transport…