hybrid to mountain bike

davegore2005

big mistake this morning....after a three day weekend my boardman hybrid was stabled in the shed but son's trek mountain bike was in the front porch of the house...even though i have owned a few MTB's over the years I am really a roadie at heart, I haven't actually ridden a mountain bike for quite a while...until this morning

the 5 miles to work seemed a lot longer.....a lot longer actually...but the biggest thing to get a handle on was actually not being clipped in as I have SPD's on my hybrid, my son's bike was slow, heavy, not very responsive and I had kind of imagined when we chose it for him that it seemed light years from the mountain bikes of a few years ago, how wrong I was

suffice to say the boardman is ready to go for tomorrow, lesson learned the hard way

Dave

EKE_38BPM

davegore2005 wrote:

big mistake this morning....after a three day weekend my boardman hybrid was stabled in the shed but son's trek mountain bike was in the front porch of the house...even though i have owned a few MTB's over the years I am really a roadie at heart, I haven't actually ridden a mountain bike for quite a while...until this morning

the 5 miles to work seemed a lot longer.....a lot longer actually...but the biggest thing to get a handle on was actually not being clipped in as I have SPD's on my hybrid, my son's bike was slow, heavy, not very responsive and I had kind of imagined when we chose it for him that it seemed light years from the mountain bikes of a few years ago, how wrong I was

suffice to say the boardman is ready to go for tomorrow, lesson learned the hard way

Dave

I assume you will be buying him a new bike soon if the current one is so bad.

Long_Time_Lurker

Over 5 miles, it won't be that long - it will just feel like it as you're not used to it.
I don't own a road-bike. Do my 26 mile round-trip commute on an MTB.
(I did have the option of buying a road bike, but ended up buying another MTB )

It all depends on the price of your son's MTB. Weight wise, the lower-end bikes still weigh the same as the old 1980s Raleighs that i used to ride.
The nearer you get to the magical £1k mark, the lighter the bikes become. There is a world of difference between my old £400 Felt and my Cube.

MonkeyMonster

and tyre pressure and knobblieness of said tyres

davegore2005

probably a combination of knobblies, weight, position, to be honest when we got it at Christmas i thought it seemed pretty light for an MTB, it's a trek 4300, i think it retailed at about £550 so not actually bargain basement, just really not for me

Dave

fat_tail

those front forks weigh a ton - and they are of no use to you on the road

davegore2005

let's just say it was a delight to climb onto my bike this morning, locked the forks out too on the MTB

Dave

roger_merriman

fat_tail wrote:

those front forks weigh a ton - and they are of no use to you on the road

Meh they and other features, namely fatter tyres do cope with potholes rather well!

Which there has been a few threads about, of recent namely the state of the roads, a half decent hard trail like that should be in the 30lb mark shouldn't feel heavy in use really.