tri_yoda wrote:
Mark Lemmon wrote:
So I'm as old school as you can get, but I did the Divvy division (the docked rental bike) at the Chicago tri a couple of years ago. It was a lot of fun. The undocked Lime bicycles are now available in many cities. I'd suggest RDs work a deal with Lime to have bikes at their tris so that someone can show up without a bicycle and do a tri.
Very innovative concept, might be interesting if everyone had to use a docked rental bike, and just make it a run bike event or something. Obviously most of us here have our own bikes, but it would be fun to race on a levelized playing field, especially if it was a way to just get a lot more people in the race. Maybe the rental bike company would sponsor it just to get their name out there.
I assume that most of us in the tri community, including RDs, remember that is fun to try to ride fast on any bicycle, including a clunky, heavy city bike, and that we would encourage newcomers to the sport to do a tri using a rental bike. If there was a tri in my area where everyone had to use a rental bike, I'd be there. Beer, live music and slip and slide finish lines may attract some folks to triathlons, but what keeps people in a sport is the thrill of competition, however you define that.
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Mark Lemmon: Dec 22, 18 15:53