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Then I bought a road bike. I was wrong in my assumption. I was way wrong. It was like going from a dump truck to a Ferrari. Holy crap was it different. The bike was like riding on a flywheel, you turned the pedals and it just accelerated.
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I felt the same way when I got my Specialized, but maybe more so, since I was stepping up from sub-$200 box store “mountain bikes”.