Couple of things, I'd guess you don't watch much cross, or see many cross bikes. At all.Getter wrote:Only place I've seen CX bikes are on fire roads. The last guy I saw take a CX bike to some Sycamore Canyon singletrack had to be extracted by a park ranger.
And being extracted by a park ranger is 100% a reflection on the rider. You can do anything on CX bike that you can do on an XC bike. Just slower and with better line choice. Much like running rigid and semi slicks. Sometimes slower might even be running. But we do that in XC too......