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A 5' 6 light action rod? No, this is not a good sized rod for Bass fishing. You should think about going with (at least) a 6' 6 medium action Why? A longer rod will help you with your casting distance, help you fight the fish better AND give you a faster and stronger hook-set, (which is important when using Soft Plastics). The reel is fine. Think about this- What happens when you hook into a fish LARGER than 3-4 Lb's? Your rod must be able to fight the average sized Bass in your region AND whatever WEEDS the fish will pick up during the fight. Do you think a 5' 6 light action rod would be able to subdue a 6LB Bass with 4Lb's of weeds attached? Probably not. Unless your a light tackle enthusiast and don't care if you lose a trophy Bass, go with (at least) a Medium action 6' 6 rod. Hope this helps ya?
It depends a bit on what bike you are giving up and what you are getting, but probably not instantly. Although you should be able to hit it with some training. If you MTB is in good tune, and is a fairly decent and light quality bike but you are running fairly heavy knobby off road tires at ~50 psi then your main gain from that bike up will be in the wheels and tires, followed by aerodynamics. I don't think that alone will be enough to give you a 50% improvement in speed. I'd guess more like 10% to 15%. (using the calculator above you will see that a 50% improvement in speed takes much more than a 50% increase in power - or improvement in efficiency). If your MTB is a really heavy cheap clunker, and or not very well tuned up, and you are running tubes filled with 1kg of flat protection then you are a Stud to go 25kph on it and will make 37kph easily. Also, if you are going for a mid-level or above road bike with aero wheels and low spoke count etc. that may buy you an extra 0.5 kph to 1.0 kph or so and tip you over the edge. The aero wheels advantage doesn't really start to kick in at until just around that 35 kph speed. One more thing is that going fast on a road bike is more fun than going fast on an MTB. So the motivation factor may actually turn out to be as important as the equipment. Just the fact that you can feel and see the reward for the extra effort may make you put out an extra 5% effort that you don't have the motivation to do on the MTB. So my final answer is that I still think you'll come up a little short, but that with some more effort and training you will get there. I suggest doing some interval and hill work to build speed. It is very difficult to get faster just by riding steady pace for lone periods. Intense bursts are very useful for building the leg strength to get speed up.
Shouldn't be a problem, go for it.
