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I think TT bikes are a cool facet of the sport of road racing. I find it interesting and cool that engineers, designers, coaches and athletes work together to design the fastest bikes in the world, which are a specific tool for a specific job.
Yes, I think the sport would lose something if we banned an entire class of bikes.
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A friend rear ended a pickup truck while commuting to work on his (steel) road bike. I think steel road bikes and bike commuting should be banned.
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roughly 2-3mph faster on same power on a relatively flat course.
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We need mandatory 44mm tires on TT bikes. Improved grip for braking and they aren’t any slower, so why not?
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Froome was blowing his nose. So, to be clear, if the TT bikes were designed with plain wheels and not the disk this would probably not have happened but the thing is a sail and coupled with the speed and poor inherent handling, you get ish like this. #facts
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Rather see all the riders on Little 500 fixies for a 10 and a 20k TT. All going up or basically flat courses.. Or a 30k TTT on fixies... Goofy aero kits optional, with a Purple or Orange jersey awarded for most goofy aero kit.
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TTs have always been a fascinating part of our sport. Individual, TTT or 2up (remember the Baracchi Trophy? I wish they'd bring it back).
I think the bigger issue is people riding full tuck on public roads. Yes you have to practice that somewhere but to ride full gas in a full tuck (TT bike or regular road bike) is flat out irresponsible on public roads. At no time should any cyclists lose their situational awareness. Hell, last summer I was going full gas (head up) down a 5km KOM segment and toward the end of the segment I passed a guy on a TT rig, head down, and at the end of this segment you have to navigate a round-about and i went through it at 60kph and I'm guessing he tried to hold my wheel after I passed him cuz as i exited the round-about I heard that unmistakable sound of carbon and human body hitting tarmac. Assuming he tried to navigate in the TT bars, rather than put his hands on the bull horn bars. Stupid. As for the expense... I think it's stupid. Road bikes are insanely expensive and requiring an aspiring young racer to buy a couple of road bikes AND a TT bike is killing off the youth in this sport. Get rid of them? Not possible. But I'm not a fan of them. Would be way cooler if the UCI made the rules to say you had to use your road bike for TTs, but that'll never happen. |
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Again since you seem to have extreme difficulty comprehending what I'm saying, I think there should still be time trials in road stage races. What I'm saying is riding an "unrestricted" type of bike should be its own discipline, kind of like how a formula one car isn't allowed at an autocross.
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