pete.yates
New Member
I have a commute of 11 Miles, all road. 1 mile in the middle is through a village with speed humps, the rubber ones that are only 3 or 4 inches wide but quite steep. I currently do the journey on my Apollo CX10 Halfords bike in 55 mins. I came home with a colleague Tuesday, he rode a Road bike (£300 from Halfords also). We are evenly matched for fitness but on the main roads he pulled away from me with ease, however he was very cautious of the speed bumbs.
I would love the opinions of you experienced guys, at the moment I feel I want to have the speed on the road and I'll slow done on the humps. But that could just be that the Grass is always Greener, would travelling over speed humps on a road bike regularly do that much damage? and would i be wishing I had my comfier hybrid back?
The option of a reroute to avoid the speed humps is not really practical. The commute is Southwick, through Wickham, Whiteley to Swanwick Hants. If anyone does a similar route
I would love the opinions of you experienced guys, at the moment I feel I want to have the speed on the road and I'll slow done on the humps. But that could just be that the Grass is always Greener, would travelling over speed humps on a road bike regularly do that much damage? and would i be wishing I had my comfier hybrid back?
The option of a reroute to avoid the speed humps is not really practical. The commute is Southwick, through Wickham, Whiteley to Swanwick Hants. If anyone does a similar route