How much will road riding improve my fitness?

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  • badly_dubbed
    badly_dubbed Posts: 1,350
    At my first mtb race, I came 4th in my category the guy in the wee shop at the course asked me if I was a roady :)

    An I know the top 3 guys ins that race were also roadies ;)

    I have my road bikes to thank for my fitness of that I have no doubt, from 20st to 12st in a year just with regular road rides (and a sensible diet) but it's when I went back to mtb on the odd day I noticed massive differences, climbs? What climbs??

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  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    At my first mtb race, I came 4th in my category the guy in the wee shop at the course asked me if I was a roady

    Were your technical skills that bad? ;-)

    It's not really a case of 'being a roadie', most good riders have both.

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