I was riding in the slick roads this morning and it does not rain all that frequently where I live. When I started riding again a year and several months ago, I started out on a mountain bike but fairly quickly switched to a road bike 100%. It seems like my road bike is a whole lot more secure on the wet roads than the mountain bike was. I know that there are a lot of factors involved besides weight distribution, but I am curious if having more weight on the front wheel of a road bike and having more "trail" in the design accounts for most of it. I was running street tires on the mountain bike and am running slicks or near slicks on the road bike. I am comparing a Trek 4300 mtn and a Specialized Allez road bike, but I don't have the Trek anymore.
I was riding in the slick roads this morning and it does not rain all that frequently where I live. When I started riding again a year and several months ago, I started out on a mountain bike but fairly quickly switched to a road bike 100%. It seems like my road bike is a whole lot more secure on the wet roads than the mountain bike was. I know that there are a lot of factors involved besides weight distribution, but I am curious if having more weight on the front wheel of a road bike and having more "trail" in the design accounts for most of it. I was running street tires on the mountain bike and am running slicks or near slicks on the road bike. I am comparing a Trek 4300 mtn and a Specialized Allez road bike, but I don't have the Trek anymore.
I was riding in the slick roads this morning and it does not rain all that frequently where I live. When I started riding again a year and several months ago, I started out on a mountain bike but fairly quickly switched to a road bike 100%. It seems like my road bike is a whole lot more secure on the wet roads than the mountain bike was. I know that there are a lot of factors involved besides weight distribution, but I am curious if having more weight on the front wheel of a road bike and having more "trail" in the design accounts for most of it. I was running street tires on the mountain bike and am running slicks or near slicks on the road bike. I am comparing a Trek 4300 mtn and a Specialized Allez road bike, but I don't have the Trek anymore.
Any thoughts?
How can you tell without crashing?
I tried doing a track stand while balancing the Allez on two bathroom scales, but that didn't work out too well. =] Plus, I no longer have the Trek.
"catzz66" wrote: I tried doing a track stand while balancing the Allez on two bathroom scales, but that didn't work out too well. (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I suggest you get someone ELSE to read the scales, while you concentrate on balancing the bike. It's especially hard to read the scale under the rear wheel while doing a track stand. ;-)
"catzz66" wrote: I tried doing a track stand while balancing the Allez on two bathroom scales, but that didn't work out too well. (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I suggest you get someone ELSE to read the scales, while you concentrate on balancing the bike. It's especially hard to read the scale under the rear wheel while doing a track stand. ;-)
