oh, i would have thought a £1k fs would absorb more bumps and vibration with the stories of bobbing i read. i wouldn't go as far to say mine is comfortable on the road. i went out on colins ride with my mtb slicked out with 100 psi tyres. by the end it was not comfortable at all and i was far slower than i would have been on my heavyweight brommie and front lugguage. i was really surprised. just proves (to me) that road bike geometry (even brommie geometry)and mtb geometry are so different for a reason. i know it sounds obvious but i thought that a mega expensive featherweight slicked mtb would be better on the road than a cheapo brommie, how wrong i was.
edit: having brilliant brakes on the road is not always a good thing. it makes you feel safer than you are. i had a dodgy moment on colins ride, my own fault, i knew the brakes would stop me no matter how fast i was going, however you get to a point where friction between the road and tyre is not as good as you think, which makes you automatically pull harder on the lever which gives less friction, which gives peanut squinting moment on the wrong side of a tight corner. shoot brakes on the brommie makes me take corners at a more sedate speed.
