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It’s time to set the record straight, which is harder, MTB or Road Cycling? Matt and Si are determined to find out, so have challenged one another.
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Si and Matt challenge one another to see which is fastest, a road bike or a mountain bike in a route from A-B.
The rides were taken part in the beautiful Alta Badia region of Italy.
Simon took to the dirt on his mountain bike whereas, thankfully, Matt stayed on the asphalt on his road bike.
The question is, who will be fastest, Road Or MTB ?
Who will have the highest average power…
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Climbing a difficult terrain with a 13 kg’s bike, i think it’s more difficult
Off road fo sho
what’s the camera man doing?
whats the music played when Simon end stretch to the cabin?
Are road bikes faster than mountain bikes on flat roads ? Please reply ASAP.
Road biking is pretty freaking weak compared to mountain biking. Mountain biking has more variations and it’s more fun then road biking. We get to ride bikes and be cool and not take up the fucking road pretending we’re a car.
MTB is mich harder
https://youtu.be/yrQc19rik_Q
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Well tour de france is quite the easy thing if you’re on drugs tho
Off road but it’s more fun
what are the bike names btw?
Off road is more harder
I love the road bikes mountain bikes are nice but they’re not made for the road
xc is the the roadie version of mtb, downhill and freeride is real mountainbiking and no roadie would be able to do that 😉
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dat Canyon doe
I don’t care which ones harder
29ner really are better on road than 26 or 27,5 (speaking of mountain bike.)
Off Road for sure..
I mean You Get a lot more adventure OFF Road You can SEE the butifull forest and mountains
Is simon using a rigid fork bike?
I suspect Si enjoyed cleaning the mountain bike as it would have been dirtier.
I think that the off road is harder than the road bike
I definitely think that road biking is a lot harder. Lets take a look at the Tour de France. Those top competitors pretty much kill themselves. Physically, mtb doesn’t even compare at all to road biking.
I only care which one is more fun
and mountain biking is more fun
Name of the music at 9:09 i would love an answear please 🙂
The hardest workout is to actually get off my lazy ass and do something… takes a lot of freacking effort…
I ride both as long as your having fun on the bike is the most important
Off road fun it’s a real pain more going on, But road can go further.
i think both are hard .
1)road biking :the reason is because you lose sence of the speed so you want to go faster and faster as a result you get too tired withought realising it for me at least that is how i feel when i ride a road bike.
2)mountain biking :from my expirience on mountains i think it depends on how the trails are how well you know the mountain plays an important role how fast you can advance at each turn and lets not forget the obstacles you will find on your way down the mountain and how much altitude you have to reach the top.
Off road is harder and takes more skill for certain obstacles
Great video. You nailed it! It’s as hard as you want to go. what brand of bike computer did you use there? Thanks
Umm.. I have a mountain bike for like about 2 years now. And I’ve never gone offroad except once and hell yeah it’s faster offroad I didn’t even know that.
Well it kinda depends on what type of riding you are doing. In my opinion they are both as difficult as another. There’s not really any point in comparing them like this as if you take red bull hardline that takes so much short term power in you legs but roadies are more suitable to ride long rides. It totally depends on what you ride and train for
i think they about the same but off road is harder
this video should be titled “I thought the cheap on was a also a mountain bike”
Driving is harder
I ride both – I find if rocky, steep and technical the repeated efforts of MTB climbing are actually harder and excellent training for road racing especially crits.
Off road harder
Off road
mtb
U should have let a gmbn guy mountain bike