Road and Mountain Bikers

[mad al]

I've been out on a Full Susp. today and 13 of my miles were on the black sticky stuff, but what a shock, the "roads" in some parts here are rougher than the tracks in the forest that I visited along the way.

How the hell are "roadies" supposed to cope with what is obviously a lack of the necessary by the local Councils here?

What's it like in your neck of the woods folks?

 

[Bigtwin]

Around here, it's absolutely criminal.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Roads are smooth, as are forest tracks, and I live in, err, Devon........not Yorkshire.


I live nowhere near Yorkshire. Horrible place, too rainy.

 

[Keith Oates]

You mean there's no rain in Devon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Steve Austin]

I ride off road a lot. and i occasionally find myself on my roadbike riding bridleways and thinkings its a bit bumpy..
Don't think i will ever get totally used to only riding on the road on a roadbike..

 

[HLaB]

I've been out on a Full Susp. today and 13 of my miles were on the black sticky stuff, but what a shock, the "roads" in some parts here are rougher than the tracks in the forest that I visited along the way.

How the hell are "roadies" supposed to cope with what is obviously a lack of the necessary by the local Councils here?

What's it like in your neck of the woods folks?

Its not much better here. My Garmin Edge didn't cope too well with it today, I've tried a firmware reset if not I'll have to contact Garmin.

 

[Ben M]

Pretty poor round here, much better in Bristol.

 

[andrew-the-tortoise]

Very poor in South Yorkshire, but some effort appears to made recently in re-surfacing....

 

[georgetr]

I'm living in MK.

Here is no rain so much, but right now temperature is over 40C....too hot.

I have MTB - schwin mesa it is really good but I think that i have to have road bike because I hardly go on MTB tracks from the other hand some local roads are not the best and at that time i'm heppy about my MTB......

I will try with combine tires maybe it will be better.

Any way here is my morning ride:

http://www.sportypal.com/Workouts/Details/20821

Cheers

 

[mad al]

thanks for the input folks My last outing on the road section of today's ride was on my Brian Rourke road bike that would not have coped well with the giant potholes I had to avoid at a lower speed thank "whoever" floats ya boat