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Road Bike or Mountain Bike?

mikesavo2003 · 2011-07-20 14:49:28

Hi not sure am I posting in right place but maybe you can redirect me if wrong section. I recently took up cyling last March to be exact and have been cyling pretty consistantly 4 evenings in the week approx 15 - 20km each eve and both sat and sunday approx 30 - 40 km each day. I am aiming to be able to do 100km next…

20-07-2011 2:49pm

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mikesavo2003

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Hi not sure am I posting in right place but maybe you can redirect me if wrong section. I recently took up cyling last March to be exact and have been cyling pretty consistantly 4 evenings in the week approx 15 - 20km each eve and both sat and sunday approx 30 - 40 km each day. I am aiming to be able to do 100km next summer. I have been using my old mountain bike (which is in good shape and quite light etc) since starting back but have a lot of people telling me that I should get a decent road bike and I would find a huge difference what do people think is it worth it? I wouldnt have huge amount of money to spend either approx 200 - 300 max any recomendations would be grateful

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#2 20-07-2011 4:04pm

07Lapierre

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mikesavo2003 wrote: »

Hi not sure am I posting in right place but maybe you can redirect me if wrong section. I recently took up cyling last March to be exact and have been cyling pretty consistantly 4 evenings in the week approx 15 - 20km each eve and both sat and sunday approx 30 - 40 km each day. I am aiming to be able to do 100km next summer. I have been using my old mountain bike (which is in good shape and quite light etc) since starting back but have a lot of people telling me that I should get a decent road bike and I would find a huge difference what do people think is it worth it? I wouldnt have huge amount of money to spend either approx 200 - 300 max any recomendations would be grateful

100Klm? Road Bike! Definitly. Search the cycling forum. there's loads of treads with 2 - 300 euro bike recommendations.

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#3 20-07-2011 4:20pm

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road bike.

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#4 20-07-2011 6:59pm

SheFiend

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Go for road!!!
I always cycled mountain bikes, recently bought a hybrid (which has narrow tires just a little wider than road bike,) and I will never EVER go back to MTB.

Unless I'm going off-road, of course!

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