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Time trial bikes vs road bikes for triathlon. Sprint, olympic and half ironman distance. Maybe ironman. Help? |
Time trial bikes vs road bikes for triathlon. Sprint, olympic and half ironman distance. Maybe ironman. Help? For the distances your talking about you would be at a disadvantage on a road bike with clip-ons when most everyone else would be riding a full blown tri bike with cow horns, clip-ons and the funky geometry. The reality is that road bikes are better for many things that tri bikes aren't like mass start events, training rides in traffic and recovery rides. They also are much easier to ride and handle much better than a tri bike. How serious about triathlon are you? Two bike serious? No? Then it may be best to buy a road bike and outfit it with a tri seat post, cow horns and clip-ons. Whichever you choose - good luck and enjoy. Slow Twitch has a very comprehensive and informative article on this very subject, called 'Tri Bike Fit' - follow the link below. Source(s): http://www.slowtwitch.com/mainheadings/t... http://forums.roadbikereview.com/showthr... are you looking for us to tell you which one you should get or the difference if your looking for one visit a local shop and try out everything! every single one just to see what you like if your asking which to ride in a triathlon a TT bike for sure! time trail bikes go fast over distances and short distances Biggest difference is the angle of the seat tube... A tri bike is steeper and what that does is disengages certain muscles in your butt and puts more emphasis on other non-running muscles which allows you to run alot easier... handy when doing a tri... What some people do is put a fast forward seat post on their road bike (makes the seat tube angle steeper) this has an effect of (sometimes, depending on your bike and torso length) putting the rider to far forward which makes the bike unstable.. go get measured at a bike shop... |
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