Titanflexr wrote:
beachedbeluga wrote:
In seeing the ban of the taped together aerobars and the bottle down the jersey (and in my own interest in upgrading my bike), I've seen different aerobar options from TriRig, FastTT, Profile Design, have any actually been tested to see if they are faster? Also, seeing some ridiculous Joe Skipper-esq set ups where the BTA bottles are raised up, or people putting two bottles between your arms to try to fill the space. This seems to be more dangerous than a bottle down the jersey as it adds significant weight and makes handling worse...
Saw a bunch of those in IM Texas and at Singapore T100. Haven't seen any production products, so I'm assuming they are one-offs. Does seem like those won't be great for handling, but if pros have a legal option to go faster they are going to take it.
Given that the bottle down the trisuit had to be perpendicular to the rider's chest and the bike-mounted version doesn't, I'm wondering if there is a better angle for the bottle. Would love to see aero testing at horizontal, vertical, and 45deg.
Canyon has a thingy to mount the bottle high like that. I have only seen it tested once, in the A2 tunnel for everyone's favorite athlete. Was not faster for him. Of course YMMV and 99.9% of the people doing it will do so because they have an imaginary explanation of why it's faster.
Now that I think about it, maybe he smacked his rib testing it