While it's a lot of climbing, you have to think that you don't see any pros riding road bikes. My guess would be to stick to the tri-bike.

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Team Zoot 2023

If you’re an FOP M35-39 racer then definitely the Canyon. Otherwise, tri bike.

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Dimond Bikes Superfan

There are a few courses that warrant a thorough discussion of road vs. tri bike. St. George is not one of those.

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Any run that doesn't include pooping in someone's front yard is a win.

The road conditions are actually very good by US standards and the great majority of climbing is the Snow canyon ramp. Otherwise it is flat and fast.

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It's a long fast descent if you're on a TT bike... Seriously there is pretty much nothing technical on the course.

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If you take a close look at the profile of the course you'll see that the time spent on flat and downhill sections are over 2/3 the total time spent on the ride. And there's no grade so steep going downhill to where you'd need the handling capabilities of a road bike. At one time the Branson 70.3 was the hilliest bike course on the Ironman circuit and the pros rode TT's there which had over 5,000 feet of climbing.

There is no TT course where a road bike is better, so always take the Tri bike to a triathlon.

I was down there riding it a couple weeks ago. The road surface is not great in places, but that's a tire pressure question, not a bike question. The climbs are very doable on a tt bike. As others have said, definitely the tactical