Mountain Bike Vs Road Bike Efficiency

He rides his road bike to work with mountain shoes and sometimes keeps his mountain bike shoes on all day during work.

Mountain bike vs road bike efficiency. It s not ideal and you ll work pretty hard but it is possible. An interesting post though a lad at work wants to do ridelondon on a mountain bike i ve been pushing him down the road bike route for ease. The road bike was running standard road bike tires at about 80psi. But it s also much wider say 3x wider than a road bike tire which will shorten the contact length for a given pressure.

On my reasonably flat commute i average around 16 mph on my road bike but your average speed is dependent on many different factors. Others call it a 10 speed hello progress. Mountain biking became a sport in 1970s and has since then diversified into cross country riding became an olympic sport in 1996. Mountain bikes are created for off road cycling in non paved rough environments.

The pressure on a mountain bike tire is typically in the 30 s of psi let s say 1 4 of the pressure in a road bike tire. A general rule of thumb is that if you are switching from a mountain bike with knobbies to a road bike you will be between 15 20 faster at the same watts effort. Mountain bikes offer an upright riding position for better visibility and have flat handlebars for superior steering control. Wide and thick for stability handlebars.

Mountain bikes may be more expensive and are designed for more abuse than many cyclists deliver. Gravel or dirt bike paths and off road or unpaved terrain. Apparently his road bike had broken the day before and he was doing a 100miler on his mountain bike instead. Unlike road bikes which can t function in the mountains you can use a mountain bike to ride on paved trails.

Based on the speed test i found the road bike rolled on average about 11 faster than the mountain bike. My local bike shop thinks a road shoe and pedal is best vs. Flat with a wide range of gears posture. Typically that s only a change of 2 3 mph.

I think he finished just after midnight the following weekend. One interesting thing to note is that a lot of the speed difference in the test seemed to come in the first 10 yards along the test track as the bikes accelerated up to speed. My son s pushing the mountain bike version. Commuters or recreational and family cyclists may be more comfortable on a hybrid bike.

Some people call it a racing bike. Another reason to think about mountain biking over road biking is that there won t be any cars. One can now have 18 or more speeds road bikes are made for speed with narrow tires for.