page_title: Touring bicycle
section_title: Sport touring
hierarchical_section_title: Touring bicycle / Types / Sport touring
caption_attribution_description: English: a brazilian maked caloi cross aluminium the first bxr style bike
context_page_description: A touring bicycle is a bicycle designed or modified to handle bicycle touring. To make the bikes sufficiently robust, comfortable and capable of carrying heavy loads, special features may include a long wheelbase, frame materials that favor flexibility over rigidity, heavy duty wheels, and multiple mounting points.
context_section_description: The sport/touring bicycle is a very lightweight touring bike fitted with lighter wheels and narrower 25–28 mm (1 - 1.125-inch) tires.  It may also be described as a road racing bike fitted with heavier tires and slightly more relaxed frame geometry (though still quicker than the average road touring bike).  It is designed as a fast-handling, responsive and quick day touring machine.  As such, it is intended to carry only the rider and very light loads, such as encountered in credit card touring, where riders typically carry little more than a pocketbook and credit cards to book overnight lodging at any handy motel, pension, or bed-and-breakfast while on a journey.
  Gearing is often a mix of closely spaced ratios for speed, combined with a few low gears for long climbs.  Sport/touring bikes may sometimes have provisions for mounting slim fenders and a rear carrier or pannier rack, though in the interests of weight savings and quicker handling, most do not.
  The BXR bike (a.k.a. Bicycle Crossroadster) is a Sport Touring Bicycle, but features BMX bike-sized (20-inch/406 mm rims) wheels or 22 inch wheels. BXR bikes typically feature lightweight frames made of aluminum, carbon fiber, or a mixture of these two materials distributed in different parts and components. The frames' geometry is generally similar to that of BMX race or foldable city/touring bikes.  Riders of this touring bike often carry their loads in backpacks in order to avoid losing agility and speed, similar to bike couriers.
  The gearing on BXR bikes is usually much higher than road bikes with larger wheels. This can be accomplished by having sets of chainrings higher than the standards outer 48,50,52, or 53 tooth chainring; cassette sprockets with very high gears like the Shimano Capreo, or internally geared hubs like Shimano Alfine 11s with small drive sprocket like 14,15 or 16t. All this is to provide equivalence of speed without losing the practicality of a folding or small bicycle.
  Some examples of BXR are:
caption: A BXR made from a BMX frame of a Caloi Cross Aluminum
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