Anonymous1502
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How do they differ from your lightweight road bike?
Do they not have Google where you are?How do they differ from your lightweight road bike?
Usually found caked in mud in BelgiumHow do they differ from your lightweight road bike?
A true cyclocross bike with all the features mentioned above is not suitable for general use, which is why there are very few on sale.
Yes. Short wheelbase/rear stays, higher BB, longer seat tube etcA cyclocross bike will tend to have racy geometry because cyclocross events are races.
I've browsed numerous CX bikes this morning that had downtube and seat tube bosses for bottles. There is a sub category that's not quite a gravel bike with massive tyre clearance, and not quite a road bike that's generally 28/30mm max, where mountings for mudguards are common.The races are relatively short, so the bike will have no bosses for bottle carriers, or mudguards come to that because cyclocross racers never use them.
Or increasingly common in this decade, internally, increasingly common with etap or a flavour of di2Cables will be routed above the top tube because the bike is designed to be shouldered.
The Canyon Inflite 5 has SRAM Apex 1x with a 40t front and 11-36 (11s) cassetteThe bike will not have very low gears because as soon as it's quicker to run up a hill than ride up, that's what cyclocrossers do.
They're suitable to the purpose the rider requires, they're not designed to be tearing down Alp Du Huez at silly speeds in the same way they aren't designed to be doing laps of a velodrome. They can though, and people who use them for non CX purposes like commuting will evidently defend their choice.A true cyclocross bike with all the features mentioned above is not suitable for general use, which is why there are very few on sale.
The Canyon Inflite 5 has SRAM Apex 1x with a 40t front and 11-36 (11s) cassette