Might be getting ahead of myself.

Wheely GR8

Hello ,I've been looking at the threads on the forum about the various choices people make on buying a bike and notice a few people have both MTB and Road bike.
My main aim at the moment is getting fit and loosing weight ,cycling is not the priority.
Lately with the weather and the lack of resistance I get on the hybrid bike (having to cycle for a long time) ,I'm not sure if I should be getting a MTB to make it easier to get out in the bad weather and muck about
Maybe I should be buying a road bike in march 2012 and a half decent MTB now.

Anyone any suggestions , thanks:)

Lumen

Cycling should be the priority. If it isn't fun you're going to get bored, give it up and get fatter.

I don't understand your point about lack of resistance. Just cycle faster if you want more resistance.

Raam

Wheely GR8 wrote: »

I'm not sure if I should be getting a MTB to make it easier to get out in the bad weather and muck about

If you want to muck about on a bike in the bad weather then I can think of no better place than a road bike around the lanes of North County Dublin

Wheely GR8

I was thinking that maybe a mountain bike would give me more work and I'd have less travelling to do.
I don't mind long cycles ,it's just I'm thinking about the lenght of time out in the elements.
I have a cruiser type mountain bike and have a picture of it in the bike photo thread.

CramCycle

2 options, "Spin it to win it", increases cadence, your cycle will last longer, or as Lumen said, cycle faster, harder, longer (ie go on a longer route), at the very least makes you awesome by everyone elses standards eg

Female/Male Colleague: How was the 5km route into work in the rain?
You: I decided to go around the long way and rope in approx. an extra 30km, just because I can!
Female/Male Colleague: I can tell, you look really pumped, better get out of those wet clothes .
You: Same to you, better get you out of.....

You get where this is going, either way you get fitter.

As for the bad weather, I went out in a road bike all throughout last year, at the minute you certainly don't need a MTB for the road

Wheely GR8

Good man cramcycle ,thats what I like to hear.
Not been able to go out at the moment has me depressed ,sorry for the whinging.

Jawgap

If you are looking for more resistance look for some hills - if you can find a decent draggy type hill - kind of long with a manageable gradient - do some hill repeats on it.

Second thing you could do to add some resistance is to cycle into the wind and put pressure on yourself - if you go for a one hour cycle, do 35 mins into the wind and then work to get back in 25 with the wind.

seamus

Cycling a mountain bike on the road is less fun. Hard work, yes, but less fun precisely because it's hard work. You bust a gut and don't move very fast.

Proper MTBing is hard work and a better all-body workout, but for sheer calorie-burning, road cycling is the best.

triggermortis

I think people on here with road and mountain bikes have the two so they can either ride on the road or off it. I wouldn't ride my mountain bike on the road - even the agricultural ones near me as I prefer riding it off road and that's where it is designed to be, and my road bike would be useless off the road.

Tenzor07

Get a Cyclo-Cross bike, hit the grassy trails or smooth fireroads, and when you feel like a longer road spin just put on regular road slicks!

bcmf

The Royal Canal has varying surfaces from smooth asphalt to tracks.

07Lapierre

Wheely GR8 wrote: »

Hello ,I've been looking at the threads on the forum about the various choices people make on buying a bike and notice a few people have both MTB and Road bike.
My main aim at the moment is getting fit and loosing weight ,cycling is not the priority.
Lately with the weather and the lack of resistance I get on the hybrid bike (having to cycle for a long time) ,I'm not sure if I should be getting a MTB to make it easier to get out in the bad weather and muck about
Maybe I should be buying a road bike in march 2012 and a half decent MTB now.

Anyone any suggestions , thanks:)

Oh Boy! You obviously haven't read "The Rules" !

See rule 5, 9 and 10

Wheely GR8

07Lapierre wrote: »

Oh Boy! You obviously haven't read "The Rules" !

See rule 5, 9 and 10

Get up outta that frenchy!

Wheely GR8

I like ,well any others I seem to like have HPC in the name and over 4K :eek: