I seem to have defaulted to be a Roadie…

Guess I’m just lucky in that I’m yet to have a real close shave with any cars, but I do ride on fairly quiet country roads (which is actually more fun than the slow bridleways in the fields I’m riding next to!). Only problems have been on roundabouts in the small towns I pass through, but so long as you realise that almost everyone in a car is a moron who can’t see outside their little metal bubble then you can pre empt most potential crashes 🙂

Well, I enjoyed that, and cracked my fastest average to date as well.

However I have promised myself some MTB time next weekend 🙂

Guess I’m just lucky in that I’m yet to have a real close shave with any cars, but I do ride on fairly quiet country roads (which is actually more fun than the slow bridleways in the fields I’m riding next to!)

I grew up in a Northamptonshire village during the early years of mountain biking and remember choosing to pump up the Farmer Johns on my Muddy Fox to 65psi and enjoying speeding down quiet country lanes instead of slogging through the fields! I hardly touch tarmac now I have the woods and grassland of the South Downs to enjoy (and much busier roads…)

Roadie club run in the morning with the fast boys.

Fast biked washed.
Sunday best club kit spotless.
Filled myself full of pasta.

Can’t bloody wait.

I often grab a quick 20/30 miles after work on the road bike, but its all to keep the engine ticking over so that j can get myself properly beaten up when the conditions allow (that’ll be tomorrow morning then!) on the mountain bike. I live in the middle of Bath and I have loads of trails, on and off road within a very short ride. I’m pretty lucky I guess.

Nuke …. Youre talkin my language..

..i guess the rest of ye consider this “bike” to look nice??..#noknobblies=notnice

What brand is it.?

Er… Road

I got given an old Mercian frame earlier – but it may be so rusted it’s scrap (time with a wire brush will tell). I’m not sure I’m ready to a) go back to downtube mounted shifters or b) ride anything with tyres sooooo skinny 😯

That said, I do a fair proportion of my miles ‘on road’ so perhaps a road iron would make sense, I’m just not sure I want to pass up the option of taking to the trails when I’ve got to wherever I was going (Quantocks last time, great fun).

As some say giant “don’t knock it till you’ve tried it”…have you?

I applied Vaseline on freshly shaven legs for today’s wet road ride. I used to be a MTBer 😳

Oh my god… Vaseline & shave legs… Im out..

Sefton..is a public forum the right place to be confessing to such antics..more ammo for the MTB boys!!!

i was a dedicated MTB only guy for years, then i worked away in oxford for a year and got a road bike due to the lack of any real mountains nearby, i was surprised how fast i started enjoying my nightly 20 miler and how much difference it made to my MTB riding, no bail out gears get you stronger quite quickly.

MTB if you enjoy riding your bike.

Roadie if you enjoy suffering on your bike.

…so it turns out most of my mtb stw freinds have darkside aspirations…#abitdissapointedtobehonest

Chief, which village? 🙂

The roads are so damaged , a road ride is very similar to a mtb ride anyway .