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1. Dibbs - Member

   Road Bike or MTB?
   Most of my MTB rides and my commute include a 17% road climb (descent), I've just been looking at my Garmin data for the last month and it seems to show that I descend faster on the MTB's probably due to my increased faith in the XTR disc's and fat tyres over the rim brakes and skinny tyres on the roadie.
   Max 47.3 mph MTB, 46.1 Roadie this month BTW.

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. yunki - Member

   crack... ooops! wrong thread

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. foxyrider - Member

   Road bike as rarely do fast descents on road on MTB - bit of a waste MAX recorded on road bike 79.3 km/h or 49.3 mph

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. will - Member

   47 on a Mtb is very impressive sir!

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. b r - Member

   I thought this would be another 'wife' or 'girlfriend' post?

   Posted 1 year ago #
6. tomlevell - Member

   46 on your road bike suggests you need to grow some bigger ones though.
   HTH

   Posted 1 year ago #
7. trout - Member

   You can hit 70 mph down the Hawes side of Fleet moss so I am told
   we had a head wind and managed 55 mph on mtbs

   Posted 1 year ago #
8. Dibbs - Member

   46 on your road bike suggests you need to grow some bigger ones though.

   
   Probably
   This is the spot:-
   http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=318290&y=132170&z=120&sv=318290,132170&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=678&ax=318290&ay=132170&lm=0

   Posted 1 year ago #
9. Burls72 - Member

   Mtb for the same reasons as you give. I bought a road bike a few years ago (gone now) after not owning one for nearly 20 years and it gave me a new found respect for road racers on hilly courses such as fred whitton. They must have b*lls of steel descending at the speeds they do on those roads, rims brakes suck!

   Posted 1 year ago #
10. paule - Member

    Usually I'd say road bike, but there's a pretty sharp looking bend at the bottom of that hill so I can see why braking rather than rolling speed might be the limiting factor.

    Posted 1 year ago #
11. Dibbs - Member

    rims brakes suck!

    
    Especially if it's the slightest bit damp

    Posted 1 year ago #
12. jam bo - Member

    that is a bit of a corner. especially when dibbs missus tries running him down just before it...

    Posted 1 year ago #
13. Dibbs - Member

    there's a pretty sharp looking bend at the bottom of that hill

    
    I locked up the front wheel in the wet there on a MTB a few years ago and the spot on my thigh still hurts to this day

    Posted 1 year ago #

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