BagsofSmoke wrote:
Thanks Fishgo. I'm erring towards a TT rather than my trusty Cube, but plan to do a ton of hill work on both and see how I go. Probably not the best thread for this, but any particular recommendations on TT bikes (budget limit is £4-5k to include travel case, wheels and aero helmet) would be much appreciated. Any more than that and the wife will probably divorce me...
I guess that depends on if you want that extra 15 minutes a TT bike
might get you versus the cost of the new bike. If the time saved isn't worth it, stay on your road bike and do some aero optimization on it.
I've had a few TT bikes (some nice ones) but I also committed for racing for a long time and try to minimize my time on the course. Some folks are in the sport for the fun of it and not look for every last second of savings. And I'll typically do 1/4 to 1/3 of my races on a road bike, anyway.
There are also many folks on road bikes at Norseman (or at any IM) and quite a few had faster bike splits than me (cough).
I guess what I'm saying is that you shouldn't need to go buy a new bike just for this course, unless it would make you happy. Lower gearing, yep, get that. Lots of bike threads you can look through on Slowtwitch for bike advice.