Hey y'all. All this talk of long and low had me pulling up some articles from the past where riders took "fast" bikes from back in the day and rode them to great success... today. My favorite story is the british 10 rider that went 19.36 on a <1000L build.
http://www.cyclingweekly.com/...-championship-189583
There have been a few posts over on Tri-Rig lately of them doing similar things.
This has me in the mood to do a build like this. I'm a roadie now a days that owned an expensive TT bike at one point but couldn't justify keeping it around after I left the tri world behind... So sell me on this idea. I find an old Trek Equinox (or similar frame) and use parts I've got + things you can get cheap online to build a superbike of the years gone by.
What am I giving up speedwise over, say, a 10mile or so TT compared to a similar budgetted bike now-a-days? Where would your priorities lie? To the geezers of the forum, what other frames should I be looking out for on Ebay/ Craigslist? Anyone have anything cool they want to pass onto a Tri-curious roadie?
I would be thinking a 1x setup with an aero ring could be had for pretty cheap. Finding a Tririg Omega might be difficult, but could really help clean up the front end when good bar setups can run >500$ now-a-days.
9 Speed Disks are cheap, and so are old specialized trispokes.
Train hard to Race harder
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift" - Pre
http://www.cyclingweekly.com/...-championship-189583
There have been a few posts over on Tri-Rig lately of them doing similar things.
This has me in the mood to do a build like this. I'm a roadie now a days that owned an expensive TT bike at one point but couldn't justify keeping it around after I left the tri world behind... So sell me on this idea. I find an old Trek Equinox (or similar frame) and use parts I've got + things you can get cheap online to build a superbike of the years gone by.
What am I giving up speedwise over, say, a 10mile or so TT compared to a similar budgetted bike now-a-days? Where would your priorities lie? To the geezers of the forum, what other frames should I be looking out for on Ebay/ Craigslist? Anyone have anything cool they want to pass onto a Tri-curious roadie?
I would be thinking a 1x setup with an aero ring could be had for pretty cheap. Finding a Tririg Omega might be difficult, but could really help clean up the front end when good bar setups can run >500$ now-a-days.
9 Speed Disks are cheap, and so are old specialized trispokes.
Train hard to Race harder
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift" - Pre