TriRig wrote:
Thanks very much for being considerate in your criticism. We respect every customer's preferences and individual goals, but might I offer some counterpoints to your qualms above:
It's true that Torhans-style bottles aren't ideal on Alpha One. But there are excellent cage-style bottles that work very well (XLAB Torpedo, Profile HC Bottle, Speedfil A2, Vision DS1, etc). If your arms are too narrow for a full bottle, you can always do the old Chris Lieto trick and put an aero bottle in that same spot (Bontrager aero bottle in his case). Poke a straw in it and it works basically the same.
The aero penalty for the Dragonfly itself is going to be virtually nil at any tilt setting. How else do you want to tilt your arms up adjustably? A two-riser system has more frontal area (see Alpha X). And if you are really solidly against using the Dragonfly's tilt for whatever reason, you can just do the old "reverse J-bend" extension hack. Actually USE makes them this way now called "Hi Rise" extensions, to raise the shifters without tilting anything else. And you could always add wedges from Sync Ergonomics, Revolver, or Wattshop, to tilt the cups up as well. Seems like a lot of extra work for something Alpha One does natively, but that would allow you to tilt without seeing that Dragonfly tilted upwards :-)
Thanks for the response and I agree with you and have considered most of these options and continue to consider these options as I weigh it versus these other cervelo bars. Not to mention your price point has always been so respectable.
However, to answer you question on how else do you mount it to a monopost:
What if you made the dragonfly interchangeable with a piece that wasn't 6-8 inches long (sorry I don't know exactly how long it is - just guessing based on images), but instead just the length needed to bolt the arm cups in and to clamp the bars (maybe 2-3inches?). Call it a non BTA mount or something?
This seems to be how the p5x / p5 disc bar is configured so that's why I asked if that is purchasable by itself.