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Re: 9 watts article [Slowman]
Slowman wrote:

there's a thread on slowtwitch right now on a crowdfunded mega test, like we did before. it's a big lift. lotsa money. hard to do. brands used to do this a lot, not as often anymore. they'd test their bikes against all the competitors. not as frequent now.

the very bike that was "9 watts slower" was the bike ridden by the male winners of the Hawaiian Ironman WC every year from 2015 thru 2019. that's 5 years running. no, those winners didn't have the fastest bike splits, but you don't get the wreath at the finish line for fastest split. only for winning the race.

you are free to think what you want. buy what you want. believe what you want. my intention is not to convince you. just to report to you, and if that helps you make a decision, my job is done! in point of fact, there are more than 250 bike brands represented on the pier at kona, so there's a pretty splintered field, but canyon is preferred by 1-in-4 slowtwitchers, as regards the next tri bike they'll purchase. so, they must be making some good decisions, as a brand.


That's the point though-without any reference to competitors bikes its kind of meaningless-sure Frodo won on a Canyon, but he may have won by a even greater margin on a competitors bike, especially if based on the new model he could have been riding with at least a 9 watt penalty.

I'd imagine if many of the field rode 5+ year old P5's they would be more than 9 watts faster..
Last edited by: dunno: Dec 1, 20 18:08

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  • Post edited by dunno (Dawson Saddle) on Dec 1, 20 18:08