Cycling to current gig

[TimberWolf]

You should be wearing a cycle helmet anyway.

The electric moped needs no road tax (or it is "free"). MOT only after 3 years.

You considering going green or something?

[DimPrawn]

You considering going green or something?

Hey I'm not some £1000/day SAP admin.

8p a day is my daily commute budget.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Hey I'm not some £1000/day SAP admin.

8p a day is my daily commute budget.

Then what are you doing here?



Just kidding

[xchaotic]

ok - so over the last few weeks / months I've started cycling to my current gig. I've managed to get the time down to 1 hour 11 minutes today. That's Leatherhead to Soho 22.5 miles.

Now the question is, I'm using my mountain bike, it cost me about £1700 last year, light as its every going to be for a hard tail. Now I'm considering a road racing bike for around the same cost......but then I'm thinking I only want to blow £1700 to get my time below the hour mark.....what do I do....can anyone recommend a decent road bike ?

or is it just the contractor mentality speaking by blowing £1700 on a bike to prove a point.......

Just get semi-slick or even slick tyres for your MTB, if you use it mostly on asphalt. I tried a road bike after 10+ years on a MTB and trashed it completely after a week or so - bent wheel, broken fork etc.

[n5gooner]

Hey goonster! Hope you are well.

ello matie - yep all well.....just busy, busy, busy....on a very very good gig at the moment, I was thinking on the way in today I couldn't think of many jobs which what this one is paying where I can wear jeans, t-shirt and trainers. Come and go as I please. Bill whatever OT I need to, work from home when I want to......so I'm now in discussions about a contract renewal.......

[DaveB]

If you do get a road bike be prepared to repair or replace inner tubes on a regular basis. Road bike tubes cant take the abuse a MTB tube can. The key is to keep them well pumped up at around 100psi otherwise they'll be flat the first time you hit a pothole.

[n5gooner]

Just get semi-slick or even slick tyres for your MTB, if you use it mostly on asphalt. I tried a road bike after 10+ years on a MTB and trashed it completely after a week or so - bent wheel, broken fork etc.

that was something I had considered, getting two new wheels and a new rear cassette, I so often peddle through the current range. but then I do rather like the idea of a racer....

[n5gooner]

If you do get a road bike be prepared to repair or replace inner tubes on a regular basis. Road bike tubes cant take the abuse a MTB tube can. The key is to keep them well pumped up at around 100psi otherwise they'll be flat the first time you hit a pothole.

yea. I've a few things to learn about road bikes, been mtb for years and living at the foot of hte north downs is a fantastic location for off road.

[Xenophon]

ello matie - yep all well.....just busy, busy, busy....on a very very good gig at the moment, I was thinking on the way in today I couldn't think of many jobs which what this one is paying where I can wear jeans, t-shirt and trainers. Come and go as I please. Bill whatever OT I need to, work from home when I want to......so I'm now in discussions about a contract renewal.......

Nice. Very nice.

I'm in a thinks-it-is-forward-thinking-and-cool-but-it-isn't big bank. Again.

[n5gooner]

Nice. Very nice.

I'm in a thinks-it-is-forward-thinking-and-cool-but-it-isn't big bank. Again.

true.....not a bank.....left the city about 4 months ago to come to Soho. Got fed up with flying to Holland every other week!!!