I understand the importance being comfortable with your position on your bike.Spending time on my TT/TRI bike is hard thing for me to do.What % in season are you on each.Include MTB. etc.
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Re: Road bike vs. Tri. bike [Cullen Watkins]
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25% TT bike
75% road bike
75% road bike
Re: Road bike vs. Tri. bike [Gary in SD]
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In season: 75% Tri, 25% Road
Off season: 80% Road, 20% Tri
I've seen too many femurs shooting through skin to ride MTB. Gave it up after a particularly nasty endo.
Off season: 80% Road, 20% Tri
I've seen too many femurs shooting through skin to ride MTB. Gave it up after a particularly nasty endo.
Re: Road bike vs. Tri. bike [TriBriGuy]
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10% tri bike...this includes races.
90% road bike
off season: 90%road, 10%mountain.
90% road bike
off season: 90%road, 10%mountain.
Re: Road bike vs. Tri. bike [Tommy]
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I'm with Gary in SD:
25% TT
75% Road
I just don't like logging 'junk' miles on my TT bike.
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Adam Duncan
New York, NY
25% TT
75% Road
I just don't like logging 'junk' miles on my TT bike.
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Adam Duncan
New York, NY
Re: Road bike vs. Tri. bike [Cullen Watkins]
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You couldn't pry me off of my P3 with a crowbar. 100% of my rides.
Re: Road bike vs. Tri. bike [loopfitt]
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you take the p3 on group rides, like with roadies??? don't they give you crap??? how about long climbing rides?
Re: Road bike vs. Tri. bike [loopfitt]
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100% of the time on the Softride, even have a SR set-up on the trainer.
Re: Road bike vs. Tri. bike [loopfitt]
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I bought a road bike (Trek 5200) But I ride my P3 as much as possible. I don't know why but I love the ride and I am sooooo comfortable on it. I sometimes feel like I could fall to sleep when I'm out spinning easy.
Re: Road bike vs. Tri. bike [luke]
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I don't live near any mountains, mostly just rolling countryside outside the city I live and I don't do any group rides with roadies because I got tired of having to slow down to wait for them to catch up. :)
Re: Road bike vs. Tri. bike [Cullen Watkins]
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I do all my solo rides on my tri bike and all my group rides on a road bike. Since I'm doing Ironman this year I will be on a tri bike a lot more then normal. I read Armstrong spends quite a bit of time on his time trial bike. I wonder if there is any truth to that?
Tom Demerly
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Tom Demerly
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Re: Road bike vs. Tri. bike [Cullen Watkins]
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66% Tri
33% mountain bike
I have studded tires on the mountain bike so that I can continue to do an outdoor ride through most of the winter
33% mountain bike
I have studded tires on the mountain bike so that I can continue to do an outdoor ride through most of the winter
Re: Road bike vs. Tri. bike [Cullen Watkins]
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100% Tri bike. Even on group rides with roadies. If you can keep up, nobody minds, as long as you don't use your aerobars in the pack.
Re: Road bike vs. Tri. bike [Cullen Watkins]
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I think that you all have too many bikes (maybe I'm jealous). I have one bike and one bike only that I ride outdoors and it is the tri-bike that I race on as well....... And when I can convince my wife that I need to buy another bike it will be an upgrade that is also a tri-bike that I will do all my riding on......
Upgrading...
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Allen, just make sure you realize it's much cheaper to upgrade bikes than to upgrade spouses! I'd keep the same spouse; even if it meant you had to forgo upgrading your bike! I never got to ride a P2K, because I couldn't find one nearby in my size, but either that, a Cervelo Dual, or a Kestrel Talon might do BOTH jobs nicely for you; it's worth a look when you get to that point.
Re: Road bike vs. Tri. bike [Allan]
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I would throw the cervelo soloist into that mix as well... or the cervelo one. Tom demerly has a very interesting and thorough review on the soloist... I am pretty sure there is a review of it on the slow twitch site as well.
Re: Upgrading... [ktalon]
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Duals and Talons are definitely out. Can't get 650 wheels and there's no way I'm going to spring for a new bike and new race wheels at the same time. Actually, as much as I want a new bike, I don't really NEED a new bike. I'd rather spend the money going to races and on a new wetsuit.
The only time I get on my Softride TT bike is to actually race. Otherwise its all road bike.
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