29er slicks?

[kingalton]

 

 

no one cares if you cut 30 minutes off your time because you still aren't anywhere near winning the race, so you might as well keep your knobblies on and try and improve your personal time instead, without taking the easy route of fitting slicks and fooling yourself into thinking you are faster.

 

it grinds me how so many people think you simply cannot under any circumstances do the 94.7 on your MTB if you don't have slicks fitted. To them the idea of doing it with knobblies is totally absurd. - WAKE UP people, an MTB rides just fine on tar!

What do you mean no one cares? Why do you ride then? Why do you train? Why do you upgrade your bike if you get extra cash to do so?

What you are saying is ; if you aren’t going to win, then what’s the point of trying to improve your times?

maybe you just like to get people hot under the collar - please change your online name to JUJU. You make as much sense..

[HappyMartin]

Hey if are OK with the GrrrGrrrrGrrrrGrrrr of knobblies on tar then go for it. I am not much enamored of how a MTB feels on tar and for me the vibration and noise of knobblies makes it worse.

 

For those that think people on road bikes are all in a flutter about who overtakes on what I think you are deluding yourself.

 

The racing groups are all finishing around 2;40 and faster and they might care but there is never a mtb in sight at that end of the race.

 

I have done more 94.7's on an mtb than on a road bike and dont ever remember having any existential dilemma about it. Now I use a road bike. Feels better.

[KenC.]

Thanks for the responses guys - They don't call it the Rant 'n Rave forum for nothing do they

[Ibicam]

no one cares if you cut 30 minutes off your time because you still aren't anywhere near winning the race, so you might as well keep your knobblies on and try and improve your personal time instead, without taking the easy route of fitting slicks and fooling yourself into thinking you are faster.

 

it grinds me how so many people think you simply cannot under any circumstances do the 94.7 on your MTB if you don't have slicks fitted. To them the idea of doing it with knobblies is totally absurd. - WAKE UP people, an MTB rides just fine on tar!

 

I agree with you to an extent.

I did last years 94.7 on my Maxxis Aspens. Was actually quite a comfortable ride and there were a number of other riders I noticed also using knobblies.

 

That said, if you are a part time roadie for these sort of events, it does become a quest to do a PB at some point, and then slicks do play a role.

 

But each to his own.

[sadamhussein]

Why waist good tyres on tar?

 

really? which costs more, using knobblies for 100km on a road ride, or paying R400 for a set of road tyres?