Why does everyone buy mountain bikes when the vast majority of time is spent riding on the road?

I often participate in cycling activities, most people now ride road bikes, very few people ride mountain, road bike light, carbon fiber light, and flexible, comes with shock-absorbing function, and does not unload, a force is very easy to 30km, 36, 37 cruise can be, and then speed up on 40 is not difficult.

Take a look at those forum gods, all are road cars, road cars around China, Sichuan and Tibet 8 days all are road cars,

A few days ago, I met a regular cycling said, riding a mountain bike to the race, they feel no face.

The last one is a folding bike, take the subway to the suburbs to ride

It's very simple, because the mountain bike is like a car cross-country SUV can cope with the whole terrain, so because of this convenience we all choose the mountain bike.

There are also those who ride the road to Sichuan and Tibet is completely soy sauce, no riding fun, road car only on the flat road straight line acceleration ride cool, uphill because of the gear ratio problem is very difficult to ride, unless you specifically change the disk, the worst thing is that the downhill road because of the tires grip is very poor, will let you know the difference between the mountain bike and mountain bikes, mountain bikes downhill can be up to 60, 70 speeds, highway cars so ride will be The road bike will kill you if you ride like this. So the city ride even if, suburban, long-distance what want to ride solid or honest mountain bike it.

Most people are basically commuting to the countryside once in a while, now the mountain bike to meet these needs, and mountain bike through the better, over a pit speed bumps or something is not a matter of highway cars for road conditions require a higher, and there is no foot support parking is not convenient. Generally not long-distance riding mountain bike is completely enough. Riding a highway is the pursuit of speed, in the city basically can not ride up, it is not as good as the mountain to the real, so the city or riding mountain more. But if you go out on weekends you will find that there are still more road bikers.

The general Chinese is a lot of ideas, want to buy a car can be used in all scenes, in fact, the last may not go outdoor riding once, are in the city highway running, really not as good as to get a highway car, good ride and save energy much. This kind of thing is still to be analyzed specifically, like outdoor riding, often go to buy mountain bike no problem, if you just want to "possibly" go, but in fact most of the use of the scene is in the city, there is no need

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