Always been a mountain biker, but work schedule and kids’ schedules make getting to the trails more difficult. Still love and will keep my Rockhopper 29er, but I am thinking about getting a road bike. 99% of my miles and riding opportunities are in the neighborhood and area on sidewalks, Kingwood trails, and roads.
Started looking online for bikes and very quickly became confused with all the different types of bikes. I’ve ruled out pure racing bikes and gravel bikes, but are “traditional” and endurance the same thing? Also I assume that coming from a mountain bike that any road bike will seem faster, but I don’t want to get something too casual then outgrow it quickly.
Over the years I always seem to fall into the habit of riding for achieving a goal. Ride a trail without crashing. Then ride the same trail faster. Then faster to beat my best time. Then faster and making certain obstacles or jumps. On the street riding for fun always becomes beating my time for a certain loop or riding a certain distance just to see if I can do it. This summer my 9yr old daughter and I have been riding together to achieve a goal (attempting it this Sunday!) of riding 22 miles from HTR/GP on Spring Creek Trails all the way home to our house in Kingwood. I already know that I’m going to go back and attempt it solo in under an hour and a half. Then I will probably try 44 round trip, home to Dennis Johnston Park and back. Then again but faster. I’m not interested in racing events and again most of my riding will be locally with my kids or on my own. Don’t know if that affects what kind of bike I should be looking at.
My budget is $1200, which is great for a mountain bike but crap for a road bike it seems. I will probably buy a used bike and let someone else pay the $2000-5000. So, with all of that in mind, what do y’all recommend?
Started looking online for bikes and very quickly became confused with all the different types of bikes. I’ve ruled out pure racing bikes and gravel bikes, but are “traditional” and endurance the same thing? Also I assume that coming from a mountain bike that any road bike will seem faster, but I don’t want to get something too casual then outgrow it quickly.
Over the years I always seem to fall into the habit of riding for achieving a goal. Ride a trail without crashing. Then ride the same trail faster. Then faster to beat my best time. Then faster and making certain obstacles or jumps. On the street riding for fun always becomes beating my time for a certain loop or riding a certain distance just to see if I can do it. This summer my 9yr old daughter and I have been riding together to achieve a goal (attempting it this Sunday!) of riding 22 miles from HTR/GP on Spring Creek Trails all the way home to our house in Kingwood. I already know that I’m going to go back and attempt it solo in under an hour and a half. Then I will probably try 44 round trip, home to Dennis Johnston Park and back. Then again but faster. I’m not interested in racing events and again most of my riding will be locally with my kids or on my own. Don’t know if that affects what kind of bike I should be looking at.
My budget is $1200, which is great for a mountain bike but crap for a road bike it seems. I will probably buy a used bike and let someone else pay the $2000-5000. So, with all of that in mind, what do y’all recommend?
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