where would be a good place/forum to try and swap my mtb for a road bike?

only 99.99% of my riding is on road, the folks i ride with have road bikes and i reckon i may as well jump to the dark side 🙂

tried with SWMBO to convince i need another bike for best of both but she aint playing anything close to ball. Even after dinner and a few drinkies!!!

Not 100% I’ll do it as would ideally like best of both – especially in winter perhaps, but she’s a stubborn old sort.

1. This forum
2. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission

If its your money then just buy it, why should you have to justify spending your own money?
Oh and dont waste it on a road bike though, they are dull!

You can pick up a pretty good quality road bike for a few hundred quid these days (Boardman, Specialized, Giant, Decathlon, etc). Saves getting rid of the mtb. As for SWMBO, surely you earn your own cash, and spend it how you like?

All fair comments and whole heartedly agree, it is indeed my money as I do earn it and pay all the bills. Come to think of it, I’m even paying for her (our) car. (I don’t drive).

Tempted to just pull the trigger and face any consequences, what’s the worst that can happen? We don’t talk for a few days as she’ll possibly have the hump, some may see it as an added bonus 🙂

Not looking at £k’s either, probably £800 max and there’s some good deals to be had in EOS sales

Just buy it. Life’s too short. You work, you earn, you buy. Done.

Merlin do a full 105 road bike, ally frame and carbon fork for £650. I love mine for a guilty road fix.

Find different folks to ride with for free.

Cycle to work scheme ,and you don’t have to dig deep and pay for it tax free.

tested a few bikes today and this is certainly the way to go for me

alas not many of the options above would work, think only one of the group has an mtb and i dont know many/any other folk with one either, could try the lbs’s to see about rides

at the moment my employer dont do the ctw scheme so thats out of the window

Swap? A mountain bike? For.. a road bike?? And not own a mountain bike at all?

You want http://www.weirdos.com/ mate.

I bought a £400 Cannondale CAAD8 Sora from Paul’s Cycles back end of last year which does the job – knocked out 153km today including a 25% hill climb. I got it because the offroad stuff where I am gets so trashed in wet winter weather. The wheels aren’t great, but they’re good enough. However, it can be a little outfaced by the rough rural lanes I ride to avoid traffic. If I was buying again, and if I was in your position (i.e. your budget, and having to limit myself to one bike), I’d buy a cross bike rather than a full-on road bike.

Sell your mtb and spend the extra on the road bike.

Wait til she want’s a handbag/holiday/new car/new shoes.

Then learn to negotiate and find your balls.

Look, you need both.

My husband made me sell my road bike before I bought my first MTB. Fast forward about 5 years and I now have 4 MTB’s and have just bought a new …….. road bike!

There is clearly no need for anyone to have 4 MTBs but a road bike and 1 MTB is perfectly justifiable.

Cycle to work is the way forward, but also the way to a cramped garage.

Better to ask for forgiveness than permission

THIS
Get a cheapish one second hand

TBH and I love both its OTT to swap a MTB for a road bike when you have not really tried that If we get 6 pages of folk saying that perhaps the hive mind can persuade her:wink:

I do actually mean that