Touring bike

A touring bike is a class of bicycles that are designed or modified for cycling. Touring bicycles are designed to be strong enough and capable of carrying heavy loads, and have a comfortable fit that allows you to travel hundreds of kilometers in a day with great comfort. Touring bicycles are made mainly of steel alloyed with chromium and molybdenum, less often from aluminum alloys or titanium alloys. This class of bicycles has a variety of fasteners for bags, bottle holders and spare parts. They have many parameters in common with gravel bikes.

Touring Bike Manufacturers

• Cannondale

• Fairdale Bikes

• Salsa Cycles

• Bombtrack

• Pride Bikes

•       KHVZ

• Surly Bikes

Types of tourist bicycles

• With flatbar (flat steering wheel)

• With dropbar (ram steering wheel)

• With butterfly steering wheel

Touring bicycles in the USSR

In the USSR, the Kharkov Bicycle Factory (KHVZ) produced several models of tourist bicycles:

• KHVZ Tourist

• KHVZ Sputnik

They differed in the number of speeds.

Tourist bicycles in Ukraine

• KHVZ

After the collapse of the USSR, the Kharkov Bicycle Factory continued to assemble bicycles under its own brand, but with foreign frames and components. Children's and mountain bikes have also been added to the range.

• Pride Bikes

In 2018, the Ukrainian company Pride Bikes released its first touring car, the Pride Rocx Tour, which had all modern standards for cycling. The frame is made of steel, and the bike has fasteners for luggage racks, trunks, and flask holders. The model is updated annually.

In the same year, the younger models Pride Rocx 8.1 and 8.2, which are classified as gravel bikes, were introduced. These two models are made of aluminum and have cheaper components.