Lovacott
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To me the difference is mainly in the sensitivity of the steering.
The enduring memory I have of road biking is having the right side of my handlebar clipped by a passing car on Willesden Lane in Kilburn nearly thirty years ago.
It put me in hospital (The Royal Free) and I still have the scars to prove it.
I'm not sure if it would have been any different if I'd been riding an MTB to be honest?
What I do know, is that I am not quite so "gung ho" as I was back then. I can't remember even bothering with stuff like checking my tyres or oiling my chain back in the early 1990's. I used to fly down Stanmore Hill in the rush hour at speeds approaching 35mph on a 2nd hand Raleigh Road bike without a care.
Those were the days.