"Roadifying" A Mountain Bike for long distance?

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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Oh yeah, cars are pretty soft. It's landing on the road after hitting the car that hurts!

    Ouch, hopefully you didn't have to pay it? This is one reason why I'm a British Cycling member, 3rd party insurance FTW!
    MTB/CX

    "As I said last time, it won't happen again."
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Mmm, yes, the landing wasn't ideal! Been worse if I'd not made it over the car mind!

    I didn't, as you say, it was BCF to the rescue, actually filed a counter claim for my bike. Fight fire with fire and all that! That experience was enough to keep me as a member for the rest of my cycling life frankly!
  • McWulf
    McWulf Posts: 19
    I turned my bottom-of-range Revolution hybrid into something more road-ish just by changing the tyres to slicks and keeping them well pumped. Although not originally a MTB, the bars and hence riding position is much the same and one thing I'd definitely want to change if I do more road cycling is the bars (or bar ends - didn't think of that).

    I sometimes think any more detail than that is getting a little fussy. Still probably as good as a shop floor road bike for that price 10-20 years ealier.
  • YeehaaMcgee
    YeehaaMcgee Posts: 5,740
    hybrids will (or should) have a different rider position and weight distribution to a mountain bike.
    My photos

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