Awesome thread. Nice bike! Did you go full rival or mixed? Where did you source the frame?

Maybe we could make rules of the thread that you post your sources so people can find the frames if they dig them?

 

Old position, now lower. I also have a disk cover and will have a Flo 60 up front soon!

Not mine, but I built it for a friend (aerobar pads were added later :)

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Your speed matters a lot, sometimes you need to be very fast, where sometimes you need to breakdown your speed.

I should note that almost everyone's bike here is Chinese, if they admit it or not!

Although not everyone's bikes undergo the same tests and have to uphold the same standards re: carbon layup. Ergo, some disintegrate and take out an entire field, others do not ;)

I guess tri bikes aren't as bad, you're really only endangering yourself. (Unless somebody's drafting off you, in which case, they had it coming!)

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...rolls eyes... Buyers justification?

Have any examples of these disintegrating bikes?

Keep on rolling champ.

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The front and rear derailleur and brakes are SRAM force. The crank is SRAM rival because it the only one I could find in 165. The chainring is a FSA 52T. I got the frame from Gotobikes. It should be pretty easy to google search.

Pardon the crappy cellphone pic:




Almost 2 years old. 3 70.3s, 1 IM, plus several shorter distances, still serves me well.

Not a bad paint scheme, I kind of like it ...

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What wheels are those?

Chinese 88mm carbon wheelset as old as the bike

Pics when first assembled, since trimmed down the front end a bit.

Are those characters on the rear wheel Mandarin for "zipp"? =)

Sweet ride!

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Long Chile was a silly place.

Serious question, doesn't all that stuff on the back act like a parachute?

Is that a bike or a luggage rack?

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Nice frame Bluesman - where did you get it??

To think I thought this thread was going to be about "Giant" road bikes.

No offense but whoever wrote those Chinese characters did a pretty shit job.

It's my Tri Hybrid ;-)

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Ya, there is literally no need for ALL that stuff...I race about ~10 times a year for the past 3 years and have ever had to change flat once.

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I keep asking the same things and have yet to see it. I only know one person with a Chinese build and it's a road bike. He's coming up on 4 years and rides the snot out of it.

My friend has a TT one, and love it... (Last two years I think)

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The entire event (IM) is like "death by 1000 cuts" and the best race is minimizing all those cuts and losing less blood than the other guy. - Dev

That's just dumb.

Here was my first tri bike; rode it a lot for 2+ years w/ nary a problem. Only reason it was replaced was because it didn't fit.

Planet X maintains different standards and you know it.

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