Mountain Bike on the Road?

[SalsaMTB]

There's no harm in riding your mountain bike on the road. I do it frequently and I own a road bike! It's a harder ride, that's for sure. Dh and I actually have an organized ride from our store on Sunday mornings that is a mountain bikes on the road ride. That's the benefit of having a mountain bike as your only bike instead of a road bike, it can go everywhere!

If you plan on doing it a lot I would recommend slicks to make it a little easier. Changing tires can get annoying though, so if you plan on doing a good mix of on and off road, I would just your tires.

[Tuckervill]

Yeah, I'm not going to change my tires. As soon as I get some time, I'm hitting the woods again, so the nobbies will just have to do on the road until then.

However, the idea of changing tires, etc...wouldn't it be easier (if not cheap) to have entire wheels to change out instead of just the tires? Or is that what y'all mean when you say change the tires?

Thanks for all the encouragement. I must be having a PMS moment, cuz normally I say "screw it" to whatever other people think.

Karen

[tattiefritter]

However, the idea of changing tires, etc...wouldn't it be easier (if not cheap) to have entire wheels to change out instead of just the tires? Or is that what y'all mean when you say change the tires?

Karen

That would be the ideal! It was more complicated in my case as I had disk brakes and would have needed extra rotors and disc hubs which at the time were much more expensive than rim brake wheels. Two sets of wheels would give you the best of both worlds.

[Barb]

Once when I first got my road bike, I got passed up by an old man on a Schwinn Typhone. For you youngsters out there, a Typhone is a WORK HORSE of a bike. the thing has to weigh 65 lbs! Yep that old man passed me up waving and smiling like he was on his way to the county picnic! It's all in the attitute.

[margo49]

Right on ladies!
If you're out there riding you're one of us - that really sums it up.

The other thing I always telepath to people who I think are laughing at me or my Trek 820 is this: You obviously don't know what I have done and been through and overcome to get to this point; because if I told you would fall off that oh so smart machine with embarrassment and get those fancy clothes all dirty!!
I think that a lot of cyclists who you see on the road have had a long hard ride to get to the moment that you see them; and to paraphrase Lance "It's not *only* about the bike"