Steel Touring Bike Disc Brakes

The tour de fer is a great option in this category.

Steel touring bike disc brakes. The marin four corners has been getting better and cheaper by the year. And as usual there s no clear cut answer. A road smoothing chromoly steel frame alloy disc touring fork with a thruskew captured quick release skewer wide range 27 speed drivetrain that s great for hauling a heavy load up hills shimano sora brake shift levers bontrager tubeless ready wheels puncture resistant tires with reflective sidewalls included front and rear racks and all weather mechanical disc brakes. Find the marin four corners for us 1039.

This one the club racer is a traditional road bike with all the fitments for light touring making it an ideal winter bike commuter or audax choice. Our robust line of steel touring bikes has a range of escape vehicles in both the on road and off road flavors. It s a top all round bike featuring a solid steel frame durable tyres disc brakes and all the practicalities such as three bottle cages a. Available in rim and disc brake versions the frame is made using oversized columbus spirit hss tubing and the bike is complete with a tapered steerer tube creak free threaded bottom bracket.

There s plenty of debate over whether v brakes or disc brakes are better for touring. Disc brakes offer superior braking power that critically is far more consistent. The disc trucker is a pure bred drop bar touring bike suitable for traveling. V brakes for our purposes are a generic and misused term for the several varieties of caliper brakes that work by pinching the bicycle wheel s rim between two brake blocks to create friction and slow the bike.

Independent fabrication was founded in 1995 out of the ashes of mountain bike company fat city cycles and now offers a range of steel road bikes. With three bikes in the british brand s touring range the ultra galaxy is built around a reynolds 520 double butted steel frame thus keeping the most traditional of touring values. It has an old school mountain bike aesthetic right down to the wtb mountain drop bars but a geometry built for touring mechanical disc brakes and enough tire clearance to accommodate 29x2 0. The tech you get.

Each one is ready and willing to take a break from the real world for a predetermined period of time be it overnight or for the rest of your life. This steel touring bike has generous tyre clearance 700x50c cable disc brakes and braze ons everywhere.