I Must Be Mad! Help Wanted

[Trevini]

Thanks Studders. My main bike is a 1995 GT Outpost Trail MTB. The road bike was an after thought and in all honesty, isn't as good to ride as the GT. They're actually very similar in terms of riding position  as long as you're not using the drops on the road bike. I setvthem up to be comfortable, with a shorter stem, mounted inverted to raise the bars a bit. By pure chance, checking with a tape measure has them both with a few mm of each other. The steel frame on the GT is much more forgiving on bumpy roads (more flex, I guess) and the wider tyres help too. Weight difference is huge, with the GT a hefty 19kg with rack/bags/water bottle/tools etc and the road bike about 13kg. It's not a light road bike compared to some, but you can feel the difference between the two. 

 

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