Should You Take Your Road Bike Off-Road? | GCN Tech Show Ep. 258

There's been a trend to have one bike which is more versatile, rather than having several bikes. This is great, but with riders at the gravel world championships using road bikes and Tom Pidcock using road equipment in cyclocross events this got us thinking, is road equipment really durable enough to be used off-road? Ollie and Alex discuss their thoughts, as well as all the usual Tech Show features.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:36 - Last Week's Poll
01:18 - Should You Use Your Road Bike Off Road?
12:12 - Hot Tech
20:00 - Comments Of The Week
22:02 - Bike Vault

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