road bike wanted

[ChrisS1]

want to start doing triathalons but have only got a mountain bike!
dont really want to spend a lot of money on a road bike to find that triathalons arent for me so wondered if anyone had/knew of an alright second hand road bike going for a good price?
I'm 5'9"

cheers

chris

[Rico]

Fit road tyres to the mountain bike. LOADS of riders use mountain bikes for triathlons.

[mk1fan]

Ribble do very nice bikes for not a lot of money. I think you can get a 2006 year Campag equipt 20-spd road bike for £399 at the moment.

Or you could try ebay.

[atom111]

I have a set of wheels with slicks to use on my Clockwork for road riding, I will be using this for the Freewheel London thing.

Depends how hard core a road rider you want to be.

[Nick_F]

Get some slicks and enter a couple of events with the mountain bike - if you like it then invest in a road bike that will reward the effort and eventually become your training bike when you finally succumb and shell out £3k for a properly blinged-up TT machine.

It's the natural order of things.

[Black5]

Chris

I did my first triathlon last weekend. Cycle was 20km.

I was going to be doing it on my MTB, until a mate said I could borrow his road bike.

I did the same 15 mile ride on both MTB and road bike when training. I was a good 7 mins faster on the road bike. Yep the MTB I used was a full susser (locked out) with trail tyres, but I found the road bike much easier to use.

IMO it isn't worth buying a road bike just for one race. I was lucky being able to borrow one. I will now be looking for a road bike though, as I have already decided I will do other triathlons.

Why not do a 10 mile(ish) ride near your LBS on your current stead, then have a test ride of a road bike from there to compare your times. If it is significant, you will probably want a road bike.

Don't know if this helps?

[pdV6]

Black5 said:

I did the same 15 mile ride on both MTB and road bike when training. I was a good 7 mins faster on the road bike. Yep the MTB I used was a full susser (locked out) with trail tyres, but I found the road bike much easier to use.

Probably get most of those 7 min back with slicks on the MTB.

[levron73]

How much do you want to spend? I have a litespeed vela for sale!