My hybrid vs road bike

[gib6933]

Ok i was on a ride toady wondering if it was worth moving to a road bike.

I have an old Claud Butler urban 300 that i have played around with. kyoto cycle-cross full carbon forks i got off ebay for £50 bargin but had to fix them, (I'm quite handy with cf) so they are sort of half kyoto half me now. holes drilled here there and everywhere posts cut to fit, after my work my bike weighs 10kg.

So given that i could only afford a sub £500 road bike and i only do about 80 miles a week, do you think my bike experience would be improved with a road bike?

PS I'm fat and heavy

[Paul1972]

I'd say it depends on how far you do on an individual trip myself, and also what you are looking to gain.

A road bike will undoubtedly be easier to ride for a given distance, but the downside of that is that you wont gain so much benefit in the way of fitness for any given ride as you wont be working so hard (unless you go a fair bit faster). If you are comfortable with the mileages you are doing currently on your hybrid and dont intend to ride further, then stick to what you have i recon

[gib6933]

Thank you that sounds like very good advice

[Chris71]

I wouldn't bother. I'm reasonably heavy too and found the difference between a good hyrbid and a similarly priced road bike to be pretty small. The big difference, however, is I feel much more comfortable negotiating the 3rd world roads of North London on a hybrid - it feels solid and stable at speed in a way a flimsy road bike doesn't. Some of that may be pyschosomatic of course, but it works for me!