bnystrom wrote:You left out a few categories. TT/Tri Bikes should be after Track bikes. "Road Racing bikes" would fit between Crit Racing bikes and Endurance Road bikes. I would also add "Cyclocross bikes" before Gravel bikes.
I had not listed TT/trip bikes, since they have a very narrow, specific use. You don’t normally see people going out on them for fun.
Fatbikes would also fit in there somewhere, but again, they kind of live outside this scale.
I left out ‘regular’ road racing bikes because many brands don’t offer separate bikes for crits vs other road racing. Specialized sponsored riders race Tarmacs or Venge’s in smooth races, both crits, classics and stage races. In rough races sometimes they use a Roubaix.
i mainly used the term crit racing because it offered better separation from the endurance road category.
CX bikes absolutly belong in the list before gravel, will add.
Either way, my point was mainly that all bikes have many aspects of their design that make them more or less suited to certain applications, and at it’s core this amounts to increasing traction and suspension and chassis stabilty. The exact names I picked are just examples that I think most people can relate to.
