Riding road bike on muddy cycleways?

bongofish
bongofish Posts: 123
edited February 2019 in Road general
So I know alot of you think I'm an idiot but whatever.

Ive done a 30 mile ride this morning and used komoot and uses 'bike touring'. Some of the roads to get to my destination are ridiculous bad.

So it took me down alot of muddy cuyclepaths. Not inches deep but wet hard packed mud routes. With twigs and things ....I'm sure you all know what I mean.

The bike handled it pretty well and I went steady. I use gatorskin tyres that seem to hold up to everything I throw at them but did slide out on me turning a wet corner on tarmac which is sad as I've been truly impressed with them so far.

Would these types of cycle paths cause any damage to the bike ? I go steady through them? I know road bikes sent particularly built for that type of riding or am I just better using an adventure bike for that type of thing.

I just don't want grippy tyres on for 1/4 of a ride that's on paths like that and then 3/4 on tarmac and draggy tyres

Thanks

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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Seriously?

    of course not. its a muddy track and you are on a bicycle.

    no need for adventure/gravel/cx or whatever

    it's fine.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Haven't seen Bungle for a while...
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Can't be Bungle. This one managed to return a bike without drama.
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  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Just clean it properly after.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Before gravel bikes and adventure bikes, people somehow managed on "normal" Road bikes...

    https://instagram.com/rsfarchive?utm_so ... 1qbxo2f70k
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  • bongofish
    bongofish Posts: 123
    I didn't know if it was ever done or if people just stuck to roads on there 'road' bikes
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Bongofish wrote:
    I didn't know if it was ever done or if people just stuck to roads on there 'road' bikes

    so you thought you had devised a whole new genre of bicyclering by cutting down a muddy path?
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • sam_anon
    sam_anon Posts: 153
    There's a good GCN video on adapting road bikes to be more suitable off-road but based on your description that'll be overkill.

    You'll have to clean it more often though!
  • bongofish
    bongofish Posts: 123
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Bongofish wrote:
    I didn't know if it was ever done or if people just stuck to roads on there 'road' bikes

    so you thought you had devised a whole new genre of bicyclering by cutting down a muddy path?

    I'm hoping to sell my idea of 'muddy path bikes' very soon. There seems to be a genre for everything so why not.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    I rode the 3 peaks cyclocross on a road bike, I just put some knobbly tyres on it.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    sam anon wrote:
    There's a good GCN video on adapting road bikes to be more suitable off-road


    well thats not going to be pwtronising clubbie viewing at all, is it.

    one to miss i think.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,599
    Imagine if pros did races over similar terrain on their flimsy road bikes!
  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Nice to see Nick back with his 11th username. New name, same bullshit.
  • Moonbiker
    Moonbiker Posts: 1,706
    Before gravel bikes and adventure bikes, people somehow managed on "normal" Road bikes...

    https://instagram.com/rsfarchive?utm_so ... 1qbxo2f70k


    Great pics
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    my bike got muddy once.

    I washed it.
  • Darius_Jedburgh
    Darius_Jedburgh Posts: 675
    Bike will be fine.
    Wheels rims need looking after if you do this regularly. Disc brakes are good for this.
  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    Tedbundy’sUndys wrote:
    Alejandrosdog wrote:
    my bike got muddy once.

    I washed it.

    I hope it wasn’t one of them new Fangled Carbon Fiber Bikes, they dissolve if they get wet.

    It was fine getting wet but I left it in the sun and glue melted so it became bendy. but i was alright because i have 28mm tubeless tyres which absorb everything the trail throws at it. All was well till i sat on it with a 105Kg bag on my back.
  • dombo6
    dombo6 Posts: 582
    There is a youtube video of somebody doing what are essentially trials on a Cervelo with carbon wheels, jumping and hopping it through rock gardens, over logs etc. Your bike will be fine.
  • alex222
    alex222 Posts: 598
    Ignore the advice above. The bike is no longer safe to ride.
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    i got hit by a car and my bike survived to tell the tale - mud should be fine.
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  • Alejandrosdog
    Alejandrosdog Posts: 1,975
    Chris Bass wrote:
    i got hit by a car and my bike survived to tell the tale - mud should be fine.


    There are sticks as well apparently.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Franco di Banco wrote:
    Bike will be fine.
    Wheels rims need looking after if you do this regularly. Disc brakes are good for this.

    nah. just give them a hose down after each ride for 30 seconds and they will be fine.

    #don'tbelievethehype
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.

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