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The MTB gives me more confidence that I won't break something if I go down a curb too hard or somehow make a wrong move and go into a pothole.
My butt does hurt a bit, mostly because my underwear rides up uncomfortably as I ride, I occasionally have to stop and fix it ๐
Here's a pic of my bike :)
You can go fast in that bike but it's not really built for it. If you desire speed there are usually good deals on older street bikes. My 40 yr old miyata 910 weighs half of your MTB and that makes a big difference in acceleration and speed. I commuted with this bike for almost 20 years and got my average up to 50 kph. Would pass traffic between lights, it felt great being faster than cars.
I'm sorry but the average speed across all stages in the Tour de France is around 41km/h there is no way that you could average 50kp/h unless your route was entirely downhill. Even then if it was a commute you'd have to return up that hill which would then normalise your average.
The tour de France is very mountainous. 50 is 30 mph here and I averaged up sure. I'd bike with pros on the weekends and they would blow by me. But the space between lights were a sprint and I would overtake traffic each time.
Dude, I'm sure you were and hopefully still are a great and well trained cyclist, but it is very unlikely you averaged 50.
Rohan Dennis, Tour de France record holder for fastest stage in the Grand Tour, managed to break the previous UCI one hour record in an inside hall, on a flat plane and achieved 52.491 km:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/feb/09/rohan-dennis-sets-new-hour-record
If your average was 50, meaning you sometimes surpassed that, you should probably get back on that bike and claim the record.