just keep riding
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Milledgeville, Georgia
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Bikes: 2018 Black Mountain Cycles MCD,2017 Advocate Cycles Seldom Seen Drop Bar, 2017 Niner Jet 9 Alloy, 2015 Zukas custom road, 2003 KHS Milano Tandem, 1986 Nishiki Cadence rigid MTB, 1980ish Fuji S-12S
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Road bike design has evolved for how ever many decades with the purpose of being fast and efficient at rolling on pavement. Mountain bikes have a shorter history, but they too have evolved for different purposes, to travel efficiently over the obstacles found offroad. Mountain bikes have enough in common with road bikes that they can, especially if modified for road use, do a fairly good job of riding on roads. But it should be no surprise that the machine designed for the job does a better job.