Performance or endurance bike?

[bonnypriest]

You've got a whole bunch of ideas floating around here. You can certainly race on an endurance bike. I did several triathlons on such a bike. Then I got a race bike, and yeah that made me faster.

But how serious are you about racing? If you're just getting into riding do you even want to be thinking along those lines yet?

Veronica

Oh girl...I'm not sure. You know...right now I'm just riding a hybrid so I don't know that it will even matter. Anything will probably be better than what I have. I know I'd like to do it all...eventually, but for the mean time, I'd like to keep up with a faster riding group & also have the ability to do the longer rides (60-100 miles) with hills, flats, etc with quite a bit more ease & definitely more speed. Is that even possible? Suggestions?