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Nice bike, no reason not to take it on the road unless its got tubs or something. You could whack a brake on it and easily remove it for racing.

Just need get a lower alternate gear on it I guess, if you put another couple links in the chain, so that the axle is at the end of the dropouts, you could probably get the chain around a sprocket about 2 teeth bigger with the axle fully forwards.

There's every reason not to take that bike on the road, even with clinchers. It's a nice bike that doesn't deserve ruin by salt, grit and all the other bike-polluting crap that comes off the road