When fitted with 1.75 tyres and flat bars? Viewed from a race organisers angle.

First… define mountain bike…

:o)

Well, having had a Roadrat, I wouldn’t take it offroad at all to be honest. It’s not nice.

it’s a hybrid.
(and fugly like all hybrids)

And not a particularly good hybrid at that.

Well, if the rider is wearing a backpack then apparantly it will be a MTB, however if they are not wearing a backpack it will be a road bike. HTH 🙂

Rigid Scanal a better option.

Probably depends on the organiser.

With flat bars, V-brakes/cantis and wide-ish tyres, it’s as much of a MTB as a mid-90s MTB. Cy rode one at SSUK in 2007(?).

As Mike says, I rode mine with that set up (possibly with risers though!) at SSUK in 07. It’s basically a rigid 29er in that spec, and to be honest unless the course is super dooper smoothe it’ll hold back anyone who’s riding one compared to a regular mountain bike.

I don’t carry a water butt. And I rarely ride MTB’s now. So I want something that is more of a transition from my road, audax and CX bikes.

In MTB do race organisers really care about such things and enforce rulings with regards to the bike? (genuinely curious having never done any proper racing)

My roadrat is lovely, but wouldn’t want to do any mountainbiking on it.

Curious now. What’s the issue with a Road Rat as an off roader, say compared to a cyclocross bike?
I’m a pretty tame biker, but I like to cover ground including the getting to and from areas. My cross bike did the job reasonably well, but I wore out bits pretty quick – rims mainly.
As I want to save my crosser for race day, and I don’t like the squat, squishy feel of an MTB, I thought the RR ideal.

I don’t want another crosser that takes discs as I want to use hydros, which in reality means flats or risers, possibly Jones bars.

So the other option is a scandal with disc 700c wheels shod with 42mm cross tyres. Or I guess 29er wheels in case I want to go bigger.

It’d be a Monstercross

I’m after a Road Rat if anyone knows of one for sale

ken shields has one for sale here

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/clearout-mtb-and-road-bits-kids-power-stilts-new-prices-1