Do people actually ride these crazy tri bikes?!

[C40_guy]

Originally Posted by PQJ

That Diamondback has to be one of the ugliest bicycles in history. Just awful.

It looks like it was made for a motorcycle cafe racer who lost his MC license and has to ride a bicycle to get to work...

"maybe my buds won't notice, what with all the fairings and plastic and covers and stupid graphics..."

[robt57]

TT stages are the stupidest and most dangerous concept IMO.

They should all ride the same Little 500 SS bike. Or ride bike that can actually steer in close quarters and have Team TTs.

There, I said it!


While I am at stupid, Go Dallas... Just shift blame to ref... [ducks] read my sig dallas...

[robt57]

Originally Posted by wallymann

Butt ugly, it better be fast!

You want one, don't you?

[jtbadge]

Eh, beats riding with friction downtube shifters

[jamesdak]

Most would say these are better than the previous style of TT bikes.

[m_sasso]

Really, ride your bike and enjoy yourself, you know there is a "Classic Rendezvous lightweight vintage bicycles" Google discussion group where you can congregate and bemoan modern bicycles.

And yes this 68 year old rides a disk rear wheel and a tri spoke front wheel when I race a TT!




Ride this on the track when I am doing pursuits and hour attempts.

[C40_guy]

Originally Posted by m_sasso

Really, there is a "Classic Rendezvous lightweight vintage bicycles" Google discussion group where you can congregate and bemoan modern bicycles.

Friction shifting and knit gloves 4life!



I was on the CR group for a long while; then I sold my last 126 spaced frame and moved on. It *is* a good group, lots of knowledgeable members...

[Hellgate]

Originally Posted by m_sasso

Really, ride your bike and enjoy yourself, you know there is a "Classic Rendezvous lightweight vintage bicycles" Google discussion group where you can congregate and bemoan modern bicycles.

And yes this 68 year old rides a disk rear wheel and a tri spoke front wheel when I race a TT!




Ride this on the track when I am doing pursuits and hour attempts.

Beautiful bikes! There's nothing quite like being in the zone on a TT bike. The speed they caring is amazing.

So fast that Lionel Sanders has a 4:04 bike split in a full Ironman. That's 115 miles! That something like 28 miles an hour for four hours. Amazing.

[dolface]

They are not my thing but it's pretty fun to see what happens when you pursue pure function (within rule constraints) and throw aesthetics out the window.

Once the machine learning and AI models get good enough I expect things to get really weird.

[Coffee Rider]

Originally Posted by m_sasso

Really, ride your bike and enjoy yourself, you know there is a "Classic Rendezvous lightweight vintage bicycles" Google discussion group where you can congregate and bemoan modern bicycles.

And yes this 68 year old rides a disk rear wheel and a tri spoke front wheel when I race a TT!




Ride this on the track when I am doing pursuits and hour attempts.

The P2 looks so conservative by modern standards. I do wish I’d had one of these “modern” bikes when I was competing in TTs.


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[m_sasso]

Originally Posted by Coffee Rider

The P2 looks so conservative by modern standards. I do wish I’d had one of these “modern” bikes when I was competing in TTs.


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The P2 and T4 are UCI legal and still pretty contemporary, most of the others looked at in this post are not, they are open class Tri bikes where almost anything flyes.

[ripvanrando]

Originally Posted by m_sasso

The P2 and T4 are UCI legal and still pretty contemporary, most of the others looked at in this post are not, they are open class Tri bikes where almost anything flyes.

Your TT bikes are beautiful.

I wish I had a purpose built TT bike, I just use my S3 with a cover over the rear wheel, a fast front wheel, and clip ons with skinsuit and somewhat aero helmet. It is stupid but I can't break an hour any more and if I just pony'd up the coin, I think I could get under 60 minutes with the right gear. But it could not be an ugly TT bike like some of the new ones. LOL

[unterhausen]

I'm disappointed I have never seen one of those diamondbacks on the road around here. Probably hear it coming from quite a ways back given all the flat surfaces.

[merckx]

We have Francisco Moser to blame for opening the door to aesthetic hell. We have the sport of triathlon to blame for creating a commercial market for these aesthetic blights.

[merckx]

Here is a good juxtaposition of when we were at the crossroads. The UCI let us down.

It was also the beginning of the equipment arms-race.