My friends are taking a disturbing interest in road riding, with emails about Etape de Dales, La Marmotte and C2C in a day being shared. Now I’m confused, none of them owns a roade bike, shown any interest in road riding or ever shaved a leg before but the seem to becoming drawn to the lycra fetish. Being easily led I feel myself weakening – should I crack or stick to proper fat tyre hairry arsed biking?

Confused of West Yorkshire

stay hairy

ride a road bike

ride a mtb

it’s all awesome.

I had an odd moment in 2010 ragging down a twisty country lane on one of my first rides with my road club and realising it was more exciting than mountain biking.
It definitely gets you fitter, and is a less expensive and saves a huge amount of faff and time.
I really enjoy it and am riding a lot more road than MTB.
But then last weekend I went and re-introduced myself to my old trails and remembered why I love mountain biking.

SO it’s all good. Just riding bikes is good 🙂

If you do both I think you become better at both – MTB skills give you better road handling, riding road makes you a lot lot fitter

do it.
or not.
its fine either way, bikes are awesome, whatever the discipline.