What do you think about people who rides MTB in the streets??

Question

can the one use a Mountain bike in the street, or it will be very heavy and will not gonna help in long distance.

Thanks for you all .. but if i changed my tires to the slick one it can go off road too

Answer 1

Cycling is Cycling. Sure they would go faster on a road bike. If they do all or most of their riding on the road, they would be better off on a road bike.

Anyone on a bicycle, is a cyclist and quite welcome in my book. (They would get more out of it if they have a few different types of bikes though)

Answer 2

Contary to popular belief, you can ride a mtb on the street. In fact, if you could only have one bike to do whatever you wants with, it would be a mtb. The reason is this. Hybrid bikes can do road, and they can do mountain. They do not do either well. A road bike is necessary if you do serious road riding, but cannont go offroad at all. A mountain bike is great offroad and can technically be ridden everywhere else too. Try slick tires to make it easier for you.

Answer 3

You can do anything with a mountain bike, it just might take extra work though. I rode 60 miles on my mountain bike with a group of road bikers. All i did was put some slick tires on. So basicaly i had a 30 pound full suspension road bike. I put out a lot more energy then the guys with the light road bikes. I would suggest getting a cross country bike, their light and fast. With the right tires on, it could handle pretty good on the road, but not as good as a road bike.

Answer 4

You can ride a Mountain Bike on the street! You can ride a Mountian Bike anywhere!
I ride a 50lb. Downhill bike with my Cross Country buddies either on the Street or down a Single track.
It does not matter if you are a Roadie or a Mountain Biker, just as long as you get out there and enjoy yourself!
On the other hand, if you are a Tri-At or a XC Racer then weight becomes an issue.

Answer 5

Riding a MTB on the road? If you are seriously about it and want the most out a MTB on the road you'll leave it alone and buy a commuter bike that looks like a MTB, but is lighter and faster. Go to a well stocked bike store and look over the differences. The cost of converting and time involved changing over parts of a MTB to suit your road needs might be cheaper to buy a commuter. Good luck!

Answer 6

I only have a mtb and ride it on urban runs. You can ride it very well, but you won't go pretty fast (as road bikes can go).

You can swith tires for some slicks to make it faster and better if you're doing a lot of riding on streets.

Even if it doesn't go fast, you can do some fun stuff on it, like steps and jumping curbs.

Answer 7

It just depends on why you are riding and how fast you want to get there.
If you are doing it just for the exercise a mountain bike will give you plenty as they require more work to keep them rolling. I have several tires I switch out on mine. Have some narrow ones with a single rib in the middle, very fast. Also have some that have not tread in the middle but good knobs on the sides, best of both worlds if you are going to ride road and trail, the roll fast straight and have good traction in turns.

Answer 8

There are many questions to this answer!

Are they using slicks?

Are they using lots of gears in a hilly town/city?

Are they using one bike for lots of different types of cycling?

Are they rich enough or have space enough for an MTB, and a road bike?

Best of all, biking is just great, and in 1990 I moved from uncomfortable road bike to do-it-all MTB and never looked back.

Unless commuting distances, then I need bigger gears and slicks, and a bigger frame, hence being a two-bike kind of rider. Actually three, but cycling is my sickness ;-)

Answer 9

you need one of those in between bikes that are good for the road and can handle the trail they are a cross bike that is what Herkemer calls them

Answer 10

If you want to ride on the street get slicks or road tires.