New to cycling

[trippytaka]

Originally Posted by blueoval

you must have had some serious fun there Trippy. haha

A mate of mine wants to get into road cycling. Has a mongoose MTB at the moment, and wants to keep it still. I've been telling him to possibly look for good condition second hand road bikes with carbon forks and decent gearset. Seen a few on bike exchange for well under 1k in local area which is decent. Saves him forking out big $ for something he may or may not like.

Thoughts?

It was great fun. Especially after bending the rim - I allowed mnyself to hit jumps etc becuase it didn't matter if I caused more damage.

I'm probably just going to get a solid set of off road wheels and keep them for the tracks, rather than get another bike - as it would be roughly 1/5 of the cost.