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benneally

So i bought a road bike a few weeks ago to continue training whilst at uni. Just been out on my Spark, it felt soooo different. I dont know what to make of it.

Firstly the position is so un-racy its untrue, i thought it was meant to be a race bike?! And it really doesnt feel planted like the road bike. Good fun being off road again though. But road bikes do fly.

Anyone else swap between mtbs and road bikes? Im hoping that if i ride them alternately everyday then i will get comfy on each. Cornering felt really sketchy on the Spark, yet on tiny, narrower tyres on my boardman road it was carving.

Anonymous

i like riding my road bike and it feels so effortless and fast compared to any mtb ive ridden, also, the shifts are super slick, and swift due to the short cassette.

apart from the speed i dont find coming from a roadbike affects my mtb riding apart from the increased fitness.

bigmart

benneally wrote:

Cornering felt really sketchy on the Spark, yet on tiny, narrower tyres on my boardman road it was carving.

Try the skinny's in thick mud, they'll not carve then,

try and have a go on an all mountian rig, it'll be even further away, I ride a scott but am borowing and enduro and its like a chopper in comparison

ride_whenever

i've only got a fixed gear roadie, so the transition is bizarre, the roadie flies (even on cx tyres) but the 456 carves turns much better. Plus it drifts more nicely. It's also bloody fast though. Try converting your spark into a mini cross bike, drop bars, skinny tyres longer stem...

Northwind

I went for a flat barred roadie, a Revolution Courier- you could call it a hybrid but it's purely for road use so I call it a flat barred roadie. Makes the change between bikes much less odd, though obviously flat bars does have its downsides on the road.

Spark 30's pretty racy but even a thoroughbred race mtb's different from a pure road bike, it's still got to be capable offroad first and foremost.