Trekking bike
A trekking bike (also trekking bike or ATB , English All Terrain Bike) is a bike with full equipment and usually 28-inch tires , which is designed for roads and light terrain (gravel, forest paths).
Trekking is the word for long-distance hiking, even beyond alpinism in the narrower sense (mountaineering), and trekking bikes were originally derived from mountain bikes for bike tours on poorer slopes and off-road. Wheels specifically for cycling today as a touring bike , while designated under higher quality hybrid bike today understands everyday to recreational wheels, among touring various recreational wheels quality levels.
Trekking bikes usually have diamond or Mixte frames and are fully equipped with road equipment ( mudguards , luggage racks and lighting ). Both chain and hub gears are used as gears .
The tires on a trekking bike are wider than on a racing bike and usually slightly profiled. As a rule, these bicycles meet the legal requirements for use in road traffic (lighting system, reflectors, etc.) and are equipped with mudguards. Depending on the price range, there are also many additional comfort features such as B. hub dynamo , suspension fork or disc brakes .
A hybrid bike usually has a porter to pack bags , even longer so that transport cycling or smaller bike tours are possible. On many trekking bikes, lowriders can be attached to the fork.
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- ↑ a b c Comp. Ulf Hoffmann: The bicycle book: purchase, technology, maintenance, repairs, e-bikes and pedelecs. Verlag Stiftung Warentest, 2013, Chapter What types of bicycles are there? Das Trekkingrad , p. 10 ff and Das Reiserad , p. 19 ff ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ↑ cf. Holger Dambeck: The perfect bike for travel. In: Spiegel online, May 16, 2013.