Mtn. Vs. Road... GCN's recent video
06-12-17, 09:52 AM
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lol @ #fakenews muddying the water.
The second post in this thread set a better definition than the video and is the one that should be argued, keep a consistent reference point:
ITT: roadies wanna be tough, don't know how dirt works 
The second post in this thread set a better definition than the video and is the one that should be argued, keep a consistent reference point:
if you exert whatever you have to in order to eg. keep your HR at 160bpm
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On a road bike... on the other hand, it would not be hard to keep your HR at 160. Trying too hard? Simply slow down!
06-12-17, 10:11 AM
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Opinions are mostly useless, but everyone seems to have very many and feel it is their right, or even their responsibility to express them all.
I try to have a few as possible. Much less frustration that way.
MTB.. great! Road.. great! I'm not in competition with anyone.
-Tim-
I try to have a few as possible. Much less frustration that way.
MTB.. great! Road.. great! I'm not in competition with anyone.
-Tim-
06-12-17, 10:47 AM
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Yes, that's my whole point. Good LUCK keeping your HR at 160 while climbing a moderate MTB trail. I'd say that the very large majority of us couldn't do it while staying on our bike.
On a road bike... on the other hand, it would not be hard to keep your HR at 160. Trying too hard? Simply slow down!
On a road bike... on the other hand, it would not be hard to keep your HR at 160. Trying too hard? Simply slow down!
Depending on my route choice, I can have a flat dirt walking path, flat paved trail, steep fireroads (non-technical), technical climbs or paved roads up the mountains.
I routinely take segments of fire road descents sitting back with one hand on the bars. On the other end is twisting mountain descents.
Where you ride determines how you ride. If I want an easy day, I don't grab the mountain bike and head up a technical trail. I grab the mountain bike and head out on the gravel walking paths.
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When I road ride, I decide how hard it is going to be.
When I mountain bike, the trail decides for me.
When I mountain bike, the trail decides for me.
06-13-17, 10:42 AM
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I raced mountain bikes for 13 years. The days when a long travel fork was 80mm. The most pain I was ever in was when I hit a 25mph headwind at @ mile 90 of a century road ride. And it was flat.
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).When I was looking at this question I was thinking about how I personally ride not the fact that yes you CAN ride just as hard while doing both disciplines. To me, road biking is a much more calculated, meditative, and a rhythm type working out experience--like running long distance. MTB'ing is like running intervals or "lines" back in my basketball days--much more explosive and I have to stop to catch my breath occasionally.
I have definitely bonked and have ridden so hard on the road that I had to rest but usually my resting is a slow roll or a downhill...in MTB'ing I'm hugging my handlebars gasping for air--to me it's harder.
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