On the road again

[scaeagles]

We've been over this - it's Louis.

Anyway, congrats! I love my mountain bike, and when we head to the mountains in Flagstaff or Payson, I like to take it along. Of course, a 5500 foot difference in elevation means I can go about 100 yards before passing out, so I don't know why I bother.

I do wonder, though, why you purchased a mountain bike if you have a goal of using it to commute to work. They are much heavier than the average touring bike, and the wide tires add friction making it that much harder to go distances. Are you planning on using it off road?

But good for you! And go Louis!

Edited to add: Do you have shower facilities at your office? That's something else to consider, cause you'll work up quite a sweat on your commute.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

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I do wonder, though, why you purchased a mountain bike if you have a goal of using it to commute to work. They are much heavier than the average touring bike, and the wide tires add friction making it that much harder to go distances. Are you planning on using it off road?

Because the cheapest road bike was more than twice as much as the plethora of mountain bikes available (mountain bikes are all the rage these days, so no one is mass producing road bikes). What I really wanted was a hybrid...basically a road bike frame with tires that are in between mountain bike and road bike. With the number of trials around us, many of them semi-offroad (fire trials and the like), a pure street bike would limit our options. But I couldn't find a hybrid on short notice.

Oh well, I got the smallest, lightest mountain bike I could find/afford. Aluminum frame. It's no lightweight, especially compared to my old bike, but it'll do. Better exercise.

Once this set of tires is ready for a change (and being factory tires, I don't expect them to last long), I'll see if they make tires in the right size that are not quite so knobby. That should improve things.