Good point. I anticipated this issue with my son which is why the only relatively high dollar bike he has right now is his mountain bike. For road and around town use, he used to use an old mountain bike with slicks, then an old hybrid, and now he rides an old road bike that is actually pretty light and fast but looks like a beater because the frame is pretty scuffed up. When he rides, which is getting less and less because a lot of his friends are now driving.