Mountain Bike vs Road Bike

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2005-02-07 10:21 PM

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Subject: Mountain Bike vs Road Bike
After picking up my new bike on Saturday, I did a totally unscientific test - I have a 16 mile ride I have done several times on my mountain bikes - fastest time of 65 minutes.

With my new cannondale, with more crosswind than I really wanted, my time was 55 minutes (at roughly the same level of exertion).

The second aspect of this is that at a higher level of exertion, you can actually grab gears and speed up - with my mountain bike all I did was sweat more.

Dennis


2005-02-08 3:01 PM
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Subject: RE: Mountain Bike vs Road Bike
Did you have knobby tires or slicks on the MTB?

I'm moving from MTB to an old roadie this year. I'm looking forward to spring to run the same time check you did.
2005-02-09 9:35 PM
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Subject: RE: Mountain Bike vs Road Bike
Slicks, with cages (no clip-ins).

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