I try and mix it up and use different bikes on the commute, but since I got my road bike I've tended towards that as it is so much easier. But the roads in my town are such a mess just now some places I want to go I have to take an MTB as the road surface is too much for 700x23 tyres. And cobbles are a good way of improving your balance.
How many mtb's are used on the rd
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Iwasgoodonce
Old School Grand Master
I have one built as a tourer. It gets used for shopping as well occasionally thanks to all the panniers. Anything else though I will use the road bikes as that is what they are designed to do.
I have continental slicks on my '93 lava dome and use it on the road for commuting as often as i can, ive been out on my other bike on a few rides over the crap weather season, but i havent ridden my lava dome since last year as i hate getting to work soaked, so its only a fair weather commuter at the mo!
As soon as the other Lava Dome gets back form having the dropout sorted it'll be set up as a tourer front & rear racks and Schwalbe Big Apples. There are slickish tyres on the Cindercone and risers so it almost sit up and beg and that's the shopping/bar bike.
Tbh the roadies round here are unpleasantly arrogant and I have no wish to be associated with them.
Tbh the roadies round here are unpleasantly arrogant and I have no wish to be associated with them.
