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Originally Posted by catatonic
This has been pretty odd, but for distance I do the same times on a road bike that I do a MTB. BUT....I am faster on sprints on a MTB than i am a roadbike. I ride almost identical gears on both...it's kinda weird. Could this be a fit issue, or do i have to develop form for the roadbike, etc?

for what it's worth, I've been riding roadbikes for only a couple months, but have rode MTBS since the begging of the year, and have put over 10x the miles on MTBs than I have roadies...so could it just be having to get used to roadbikes?
believe me, you'll get faster on the road bike. i wasn't comfortable either when i switched from mtn bikes, but once i learned how adapt my body to the road bike it wasn't even close. for me, the challenge was to get enough upper body leverage with the drop bars, it felt unnatural at first and thus i couldn't throw my body weight around enough.
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