Road cycling with mountain bike tyres

[daggavis]

I agree with JB. JB, remember we had this same discussion when I collected my road wheels..

 

I used Continental Sportcontact 1.3's on the mtb and the wheels run so much smoother than nobblies on tar. Then I started to run out of gears due to the ratio of say 44/11 compared to a roadbike with 53/12 combination.

 

I'm currently building up a roadbike slowly. The effect of lower weight with gearing suited much more for road riding and not torque required fo r mtb'ing will make you a lot faster.

 

I did the Bakwena superclassic last year on the mtb with slicks and although this is flat and fast route I could just not keep up with the guys with similiar fitness levels on their roadbikes.

[davetapson]

There is of course a third solution - get some fast rolling knobbies like Bontrager Revolts or Hutchison Pythons (can you get these in SA?) - I used to swap nevegals off for slicks for the 94.7 (and it made a h3ll of a difference) but after I put the revolts on, it just wasn't worth the effort of swapping as the revolts roll so quick.

 

 

 

Also p!sses the roadies off that you can keep up with them using KNOBBIES...