Lastly, mtb tires have lower pressure, the rider wears more gear which adds weight, the handlebars are wider causing wind resistance. The purpose of a mountain bike is to ride off road and not on the road. If you take your mountain bike the way it is and ride it against a road bike on pavement then you will not keep up with it.
First your mountain bike is heavier and it will take more effort by you to pedal at the same speed as the road bike. Even if you can it will be difficult to keep up with the road bike for a long time. Next, if you have been mountain biking and never have been road biking, then you are not conditioned for it.
Road biking takes more endurance and resistance to lactic acid build up. Therefore you will not be able to keep up after a certain time because you are untrained for it. The best way to be able to keep up with a road bike is to change your mountain bike the way I explained earlier.
Then you need to train yourself with your mountain bike by riding on the road more. This will help improve your road biking as well as your mountain biking. It will take more effort and energy to pedal a mountain bike on the road.
If a road bike and a mountain bike are going the same speed on the road then the mountain bike rider will be working harder to get to and maintain that speed. Mountain bike tires have more rolling resistance on the road than a road bike. This is because the tires are thicker and wider.
Because the tire has more surface area and contact with the ground this causes more friction. This makes it more difficult to go fast. When you are riding the trails you need tires with grip. So mountain bike tires have knobs on them. Some short and some tall depending on how much grip you want. Using these tires on the road will just slow you down.
The knobs will absorb your pedal power on the road. You will have to work harder to go the same speed as a road bike. In order to remain stable and balanced on rough terrain mountain bikers have an upright position. Even when they want to go fast they get into an attack position. This is not aerodynamic when used on the road, there is more wind resistance. This slows the rider down at higher speeds. Suspension is used on the front and rear tires of mountain bikes to ride over roots and rocks.
I think I might get a road bike. Just for going to work. Not hilly but usually a good breeze one way or the other. I've just started commuting some of my commute I did it for the firs time on Monday and taking a few wrong turns on the way in, stopping twice to check my route and probably doing closer to 15 miles took me 56 mins.
On the way back to the car, it took me 42mins dead on — so an average of The commute is almost entirely up on the way there and down on the way back about feet over the I suspect a road bike would make me a couple of minutes quicker. Having said that, my Ti hardtail is only a couple of minutes slower than my Ti road bike if I stick to the very hilly tarmac route. My point was the difference in times on MY commute — same route, same rider, different bikes. Same journey in the car usually takes about 25 minutes too.
BTW, I found I was getting quite a lot more neck aches if carrying a heavy laptop etc bag with the roadbike more bent down vs. Getting a good bag helped things slightly, but not entirely. Depends on the MTB innit. Are we talking Scott Scale with 23mm slicks, say, or Giant Reign with 2. On the speed front, I do 26 and a bit km in a hilly area, and that takes under an hour, 54 minutes is my fastest yet.
On a touringish road bike saddle bag, mudguards with drop bars and race tyres. If you carry weight on the bike it is much more comfortable — either panniers or big saddlebag carradice make ones big enough for laptops etc. Not really — if you stick with the MTB, thin slicks would be a likely alternative to a new road bike.
I have some 23mm slicks and tubes, barely used, if anyone wants? It's worth noting btw that if you do get a full road bike, even an entry level one, it probably won't have rack mounts. When I had a long commute I went for full road bike and gear, and used a super light Camelbak octave with minimal stuff in it — left my shoes at work and so on.
Didn't need a laptop for that job. What a guy! I was in Red Kite Solihull recently, listening in on the schpiel that the salesman was giving a woman who was interested in buying a road bike.
He claimed that a road bike was 3x more efficient than an MTB, on the road. Even accounting for tiddly wheels and knobblies, it seemed like a big difference! Seems like he may have been exaggerating a tad…. Viewing 40 posts - 1 through 40 of 51 total. Posted 11 years ago. Mountain bike riders body position is not as aerodynamic, more shock absorption makes you slower, and the gear ratio causes lower top speed.
The purpose of a mountain bike is to ride off road and not on the road. Riding posture, rolling resistance, frame geometry, and weight are the main reasons for road bikes being faster with the same level of effort. Mechanically, the extra weight of the MTB, lower gearing, and the increased rolling resistance of the wheels wider, knobby tires as well as lower tire pressure will make the bike slower than a road bike for the same amount of pedaling effort. On average, yes,more expensive bikes go faster.
Less because of the bikes than because of their riders. People who ride expensive bikes are again on average more likely to race, train systematically, and ride longer distances. They make themselves into better motors than do less committed riders.
Mountain bikes are harder to pedal and slower on pavement. But they have a cushy ride, an upright riding position, and can travel easily on a wide variety of surfaces. Hybrid or cross bikes are almost as fast and easy to pedal as a road bike, while being almost as comfortable and versatile as a mountain bike. Recumbent Bicycles have a long, low design and a full-size seat with a backrest. Recumbents are available in two-wheel and three-wheel designs.
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