View Single Post
Old 10-03-09, 09:36 AM
  #25  
cyccommute 
Mad bike riding scientist
 
cyccommute's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 27,274

Bikes: Some silver ones, a red one, a black and orange one, and a few titanium ones

Mentioned: 150 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
Quoted: 6147 Post(s)
Liked 4,093 Times in 2,325 Posts
Originally Posted by heckler
the people saying that a mtb will help you lose weight faster due to it being inefficient are not going fast enough on their road bikes

sticking with the mtb is fine... get some slicks if you are mostly on the road
I ride plenty fast enough and far enough on my road bike. A mountain bike takes more energy to push through the air...weight and aerodynamics work against you on an upright mountain bike.

The point of weight loss is to use more energy than you take in. Bicycles are incredibly efficient users of energy. Nothing else on the planet touches it in terms of miles per calorie. A mountain bike is less efficient than a road bike in all aspects. A 25 mile ride on a mountain bike (even with slicks) takes much more effort...and burns more calories...than a road bike does. Keep the knobbies on and you'll burn even more energy. Take the knobbies out on dirt (up hill and down) and you'll burn even more.
__________________
Stuart Black
Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Old School…When It Wasn’t Ancient bikepacking
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!



cyccommute is offline