Have cut my ties.....

guilliano

I have just sold my MTB so am now in the position where I am a pure roadie! I only have 1 bike now and I'm in a strange position........ I kind of regret it but I know it's gone to better home where it will get so much more abuse! Anyone else done the same thing and handed a favourite toy over to be abused horribly by another so they could concentrate on wrecking a much more vulnerable bike?

Ruari

I want to congratulate you, but I can see it's hard wondering what's happening to the sold bike... Just think of the impending 'better' weather and how much you can get out and thrash your road bike!

bompington

My MTB, which had covered 1000s of miles off road and even more on (before I got a road bike) had got unrideable for a year or so before I took it to one of those charity bike recycling places. For most of its last year, the front fork happily moved a cm or two forwards and backwards, but not at all up and down - I kept waiting for it to snap...
I was road-only for a while but now I've got a new one - nothing fancy, Revolution Cuillin Sport i.e. one up from the entry level. In my opinion MTBs are for abusing, I don't know if I could enjoy myself on an expensive one.

I love the variety in switching between on and off road, I've always been a jack of all trades.

AndyD2574

Used to be MTB only...............then started on teh road and LOVE it BUT couldnt give up my MTB as its a nice change to get into teh hills on an epic all day ride!

I like the variety I suppose but do prefer my road bike!

morstar

Grew up riding road and then pretty much stopped riding in my late twenties.

Purchased an MTB in 2001 and it got me into riding again and for that I am ever thankful. Proper cycling is all about the road but MTB can be plain good fun. Went out yesterday on MTB with a mate who is trying to get fit for Manchester Blackpool. Damn good fun and even got a few flakes of snow. Hadn't expected that!

Homer J

Sometimes you just got to move on and let go. You are a man now, it was the right thing to do.

ExeterSimon

If I believed in all that religious crap I'd pray for you.

One day you will learn the error of your ways and buy another MTB. Until then you will remain an outcast!!!!

fossyant

N+1 you can never have enough.....

SteveR_100Milers

Surely a 'real' cyclist will own several bikes; for example: road, (one winter, one summer, maybe one race.sportive); track, TT, MTB Hardtail, MTB full susser, maybe even a touring bicycle. However, never a recumbant, that really isn't stylish...

guilliano

I work in a bike shop so I can't afford to be a "real" cyclist with lots of bikes! I can barely afford to maintain the one I ride most.

SteveR_100Milers

guilliano wrote:

I work in a bike shop so I can't afford to be a "real" cyclist with lots of bikes! I can barely afford to maintain the one I ride most.

Can't you negotiate a"company bike" - the benefit in kind would be minimal, if at all given the green tax incentives.

guilliano

I wish!!!!

keef66

Well I passed on my much loved mtb to my son who uses it to get around at university, so I still get to see it occasionally. At which times I usually feel obliged to give it a bit of pampering.

Cressers

I wonder though, as you ride along the road do you see a ribbon of singletrack snaking away into the trees and wish you were able to follow it? Why define yourself? Enjoy all aspects of cycling while you still can.

(An update on My Little Problem. I'm due for the rubber finger treatment on June 7th, in the meantime riding is more uncomfortable than painful....)