Originally Posted by
Al1943
It sounds like you're a good candidate for a road bike. Spinning the 48 ring at a higher rpm will probably produce more speed than changing chainrings. But in the long run you'll probably be happier with a road bike. It's really easy to spend too much on upgrades when for a little more you could have a new road bike and pick up some real speed.
That's where it will go eventually, but until I'll be ready to invest on a worthy road bike I want to try some things out with the one I allready have. I'm not talking about installing a carbon Campy multi-million chainset, all i want is to try out one in the €100 class to see how it will behave.