I think road and off-road are just different parts of the same thing, I wouldn’t be without either. Done my first 100 mile ride on the road yesterday and Strava puts my max speed at 48mph on the descent to Chipping Camden, that was fairly exciting.
You should be able to sell it for over half I’d say, then get yourself a Voodoo or something similar, very good value for money and you’ll have loads more fun.
If it’s adrenaline rush you want, boy do I have just the bike for you!
The other day I was zooming down a steep hill in the rain. When the speed got up to 30mph, and with a corner coming up, I put on the brakes.
Pulled them on hard, nothing happened. The bike just kept going faster.
Even harder right up to the handlebars and it kept getting faster.
The adrenaline rush nearly stained my undies.
Apparently rod brakes don’t work too well in the wet, but luckily they eventually do and I managed to slow down to about 20mph for the corner. The speedo shows the max hit 37mph with the brakes full on.
So now I find this bike far too exciting, and you find yours too boring, how about a swap? Your roadie mates will be really impressed…
He should swap for that bike, because those things are really scary adrenaline rushy. The big basket is for your manly ornaments – you need big ones to ride one of those bikes down hills with a full load… 🙂
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Im gonna keep the road bike just for convienience and to not waste money
Where can I find a good hardtail with either marked down price or second hand.
Im looking around the 1000-1200 rrp with a good discount
What about a cannondale trail sl 29er
The son of a friend of mine spent £900 on a road bike. Turned out he didn’t have the balls to ride it long enough to get fit enough to see some reward from it. Put it on fleabay and got £720. Pretty good return i’d say. Felt sorry for my mate. He knew that we all knew that he’d raised a little knobber.
On-one and genesis both look decent
which offers the most and which genesis should i get (if i went genesis) for downhilly and trail riding? Is the mantle the best suited?
Sack the road bike – you’ll probably never grow to like it. Road and mtb are two entirely different sports appealing to different mindsets. Some folk have both mindsets simultaneously and ride both bikes. Those I know who ride both always say the mtb is fun and enjoyable, the road bike just a dull training machine. They also say road riders are generally odd and antisocial. I’m happy to take their word on this. No better way to ‘train’ for mtb than by riding an mtb, anyway.
Good luck with the sale. Give it away if necessary – save time and start enjoying yourself.
Nah, they’re still sound, they just avoid riding road with other – more typical – roadies, thus minimising the contact with oddballs and performance nuts. These guys I know have nothing to gain by knocking roadies, it’s just a general observation many of them have made over the years, independently of each other. I can’t argue with that because it backs up my own (admittedly limited) experience of road riders – i.e. bit more uptight, a bit less friendly when you nod at them, and driven by results and PBs rather than just the fun of being out and having a laugh. Oh, and sometimes a bit ill looking 😉
Except all pro riders road ride as part of there fitness training. I do both and enjoy both. But if I had choose it’d be the mtb every time 🙂 yeah them anti social road riders going round in them big groups chatting and eating cake. But I know what you mean.