I've never 'got'

Weird - Just looked them up on Spotify and I like all of the 'Related artists'...

Don't get Spotify.

people commuting on heavy ass MTB's with mud cutting tyres....ha ha hahhhhhh....fools!

^ Agreed,

But get an old decent mountain bikes from the 90s ... Single Speed it and stick some Slick Tyres and you have the ultimate urban commute machine.

people commuting on heavy ass MTB's with mud cutting tyres....ha ha hahhhhhh....fools!

Yeah!

Almost a stupid as people riding brakeless lo-pros with their saddles too high and stupidly short handlebars, but not quite.

At least the move forward not wobble to the sides.

people commuting on heavy ass MTB's with mud cutting tyres....ha ha hahhhhhh....fools!

I'm not convinced my MTB would be significantly slower to commute that my normal bike, save for the fact that the bars are a bit wide for cutting between cars.

Infact I had slicks and cut down bars on my hardtail and used to scalp fixed and road bikes.

(More than anything it's the ability to bolt up to junctions with the confidence of hydraulic brakes)

Then I got shat on one day by an SS MTB in turn.

(Heavy tyres will also give you a damn good work out)

As long as you are not on the pavement like most MTB dickheads in my endz. One of these days... I swear!

Danny Macaskill I am not. Over a commute, having ridden fixed, geared and MTB the latter was the quickest. For me.

Perhaps is the newly found confidence (with proper brakes you can go faster and stop quicker)?

Well, it was MTB first for me, but yeah massive confidence in the bike.

I mean in general. Some people would be shocked to find out how much stopping power two proper brakes can have :-)

I'd assumed that, as much as the brakes help, the freewheel and mid-range power of a MTB is what makes it punch above its weight, commuting wise.

Possibly a modern compact road / track frame could out sprint an mtb. It's the brakes imho.

Its the rider.

Lets say it's the same rider...

Road bike wins.

^ This could be true. I think it's the rider aswell. I feel more comfortable ragging an xc mtb through traffic.

Knowing that I could stop on a button at any point. I had a slight weight disadvantage tho, so a roadie could get up on me quicker.

Not forgetting wider slicks being harder to spin up.

Road bike wins.

this

same rider on all three bikes the geared bike is the faster... certainly in my experience

You are riding to work, people, not racing a crit, this page is reading like C+/bikeradar

Next we will have the commuter racing points thing.

Which I will win.

Mainly because I have no problems ling on the internet. It's what it was made for.

I have a huge penis.