Our mountain bikes seem to take us back to when we were kiddies, I so pose that's why we love them. Perhaps that is why so many of us ride our mountain bikes out of the forest and on to the asphalt. On asphalt our leg speeds tend to be higher for longer periods time there by giving us a more round training program. The problem with this behavior is that asphalt does real damage to the tires because of the soft compound of off road tires. After only a few excursions on to the black top our knobbies are looking tattered.
One solution other then taking the road bike out or buying new tires every couple of months is two check out the new mountain bike slicks like the Specialized Turbo S/ATB. I'm not advocating one brand over another but today, the day I'm writing this, I'm at my girl friends house and all I have to research from is a Nashbar Catalog and the April 97 issue of Bicycling. I can't even go on line and surf the Web because of a problem the phone lines in her building. So in lieu giving you the readers a nice long list of brands with specs to chose from, I give you nice list of Web resources to check out at www.intercall.com/~joe/cycling.htm
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