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Bike query

  • 15-04-2013 1:26pm
    #1
    kellyj77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭


    I decided recently to buy a cheap mountain bike and go cycling to see if i enjoyed it. I began cycling to football training and general cycles in the evenings and found i liked it. I decided last week to try a cycle into work and it was far easier/quicker and enjoyable than i thought. In my job the bike to work scheme coincidently opened up. My question is, is there really much of a difference in the cheap mountain bike i use compared to if I bought one on the scheme valued at approx 500-600 euro. If so, where would I notice beneficial differences? My cycle to work and football is around 10k either way and the cycles i have been doing in the evenings are around 15-20k.


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  • #2
    macnab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭macnab


    Does it have to be a Mountain bike? my wife started cycling recently on a mountain bike and hated it, I set her up on my commuter road bike (Carrera TDF) and she loved it. The difference is less weight on your saddle which reduces butt ache. Also mountain bikes are very heavy with fat tyres that dont like rotating at speed which adds a lot of time onto a cycle.


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