MTB vs Road Bike. How much faster on the road?
A road bike is 26.729% quicker. Give or take.
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MTB vs Road Bike. How much faster on the road?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Blimey. My commute is just over 7 miles, and I can do it in under 1/2hr easily on the MTB and have done it in 22 mins on a road/hybrid bike with 28mm tyres. I do it now on a Cararra Subway (MTB with slicks basically) in about 27 mins these days, and I'm not that fit and ride in normal clothes and sandals!
What a guy!
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My commute: 7 miles on road bike = about 24 mins, 6 miles on MTB = 24 mins
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The bike I use on the road is my On One Inbred with a 'slick' set of wheels & Schwalbe City Jet tyres. I suspect a road bike would make me a couple of minutes quicker.
Funnily enough my MTB based commuter was also an Inbred with Schwalbe City Jet tyres on. Changing from that to a Giant OCR3T road-bike took 10 minutes off my 10-mile commute.
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Interesting. I was in Red Kite (Solihull) recently, listening in on the schpiel that the salesman was giving a woman who was interested in buying a road bike. He claimed that a road bike was 3x more efficient than an MTB, on the road. Even accounting for tiddly wheels and knobblies, it seemed like a big difference! Seems like he may have been exaggerating a tad...
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TBH you could just get £50-£100 worth of old Raleigh racer / tourer. Get used to downtube shifters, fit dual pivot brakes and you're in business.
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i can ride my downhill bike with 2.7" tyres faster than my road bike, i find the extra grip helps on the tarmac and thats on a 10mile road to work!
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jon rambo - Member
i can ride my downhill bike with 2.7" tyres faster than my road bike, i find the extra grip helps on the tarmac and thats on a 10mile road to work!You truly are Jon Rambo, the drag on a 2.7 tyre along with the weight of a DH bike, not to mention the energy sapping bob of a long travel suspension bike must really take some effort on a 10 mile commute.
You say it gives you more grip than a road bike tyre – is this because your thunderous thighs are wheel spinning your skinny road bike tyres all the way through to top gear?
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jon rambo you is the king
I wonder how the feeble Chris hoy maintains traction with his limited 2000 watt + power putput on those skinny tyres. I enjoyed you winding up th southerners but that was a weak attempt
Road is about 15-20% faster than a slick MTB over moderately hilly terrain.Posted 1 year ago # -
Is this part of your 10 mile 'road' commute?... surely the only way it would be faster on a downhill bike.
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A road bike will be quicker, but a simpler alternative may just be to buy a spare set of wheels (built as road rims on MTB hubs) and run normal road tyres. Gearing will be a little odd, but it should do what you need without great expense.
Only PITA is lack of mudguards on an MTB - rear guard can be bodged, but fitting full guards to a sus fork would be a challenge..!
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Junkyard - Member
Road is about 15-20% faster than a slick MTB over moderately hilly terrain.Nonsense!
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but fitting full guards to a sus fork would be a challenge..!
can be done - you just need smart light brackets and some injinuity + mount to rear of the arch
do not do it if you use the bike off road though , sticks become lethal
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but fitting full guards to a sus fork would be a challenge..!
there are a couple locked up at work with them.
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Why do you want guards anyway? You're not going to ride at a rate so slow you don't have to change clothes anyway are you?
I live above my office, really miss my commute to work
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its grim getting road grime all over your stuff , face etc
cant be good for you , and putting the same stuff on at end of day is rancid !
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