This is funny to me. I had a mountain bike with slicks on. I really enjoyed it, used it for my daily commute for 4 or 5 years, beat the crap out of it on the roads. Never took it on trails, ever. I saved up for a year and a half, sold the mountain bike, got a much more "road"-worthy build on a cross frame. First weekend I had it? I went out off-roading through the woods. I'm dumb. I'm doing it all backwards.