Touring
Touring bicycles are probably the most familiar of the specialty bikes at TTR. We've all been tourists, and many of us have been tourists on bicycles. The local bike club in Greenville, the Greenville Spinners, hosts an annual "Ride to the Beach" which treats its members to the opportunities of a really fun "credit-card tour" from the foothills to the shore each year. Many of the regular customers at TTR Bikes have taken bike trips to, or, in exotic locales from the American West to the Far East.
Most of them will tell you that the choice of bike and the choice of gear often make a BIG difference in the enjoyment and the success of these trips. So that's what the "Touring" part of TTR is about-helping better equip the tourist with good touring equipment and with good advice to make the trip more enjoyable.
The Co-Motion Americano
One of the things we'll focus on is accessing the knowledge pool of the more experienced touring/commuting types in our biking community and making it available to our customers. There is much to learn...and in a good tour, the bike should be a reliable, trusted tool, not the focus! Focus on the mountain range, the sunset, the vineyards-but not the broken spokes, exhausted brake components, or the cracked pannier rack!
Depending on what your "tour" is, you may already have a suitable bike. For example, most medium-priced road tandems are well-designed for the rigors of touring. Or, some old-school rigid-frame mountain bikes can be equipped to be good touring machines. But there's a class of bikes purpose-built for the rigors of touring, and we have these in inventory, along with the gear that is appropriate to your particular exploring interest.
For commuters, a good touring bike, and touring-style components can be useful equipment for allowing one to ditch the car and get places by bike. We have panniers for laptops, fenders, lights, and all that help build a useful commuter bike.
We are authorized dealers of:
- Co-Motion —Thoughtful geometry and painstaking execution in Co-Motion's take on classic design. They're beautiful, go-anywhere bikes. Recently CoMo has added a 26"-wheel all terrain vehicle, the Pangea, and an off-the-peg Rohloff-equipped Americano.
- Salsa Cycles — "Adventure by Bike" is Salsa's mantra, and they have a stable of bikes designed with that in mind: the disc-equipped Vaya, the adventure 29er Fargo, and the newly-redesigned Casseroll, which would make a tight sport-tourer or rando bike. All are in stock in 2012.
- Surly Long Haul Trucker LHTs are in stock now in size 43, 52, 54, 56, 58 . . . the Disc Trucker will be in our hands as soon as it drops.
We also stock panniers and other touring-style bags, racks, fenders, lights, etc. (See the Gear section.)
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