WOndering if anyone had any insight on Aegis bikes, as I have an opportunity to get one at a great discount. Thanks.
no offense, but their ugly man.
I’ve had a Trident for 4 years. It works fine. If only I had boughten a Cervelo, I would be faster!!
So this was my fourth try at a thread about equipment, my first was about lowering my stem and it got zero replys, the second was about shoes and recieved a few decent responses, the third was about aero helmets and got zero serious responses and now this one with one real response. Yet, if this was about a Cervelo, why Steve Larsen is an idiot, how to pick up men/women or what’s wrong with everyone else it would already have hundreds of responses. Sad, very sad. Don’t bother responding to my rant as I only want on topic responses the original post.
A friend of mine has an Aegis built up for her specifically by John Cobb and she loves it. I think it’s a great looking bike. She’s set up really steep. I think it’s a T2 from a couple years ago?
Alicia
I like the look of the Aegis Trident. I know a few people that have ridden them and they loved the bike. From everything that I’ve heard they are made well and the only complaint seems to be that the head tube is a little on the tall side and that you need to order a size smaller than what you would normally ride. They are not very abundant in Ontario but that is probably due to a lack of any dealer network up here.
It is all in how you title your post:
Now if you titled your post something like:
“Aegis bikes are more aero than Cervelo”
or
“Aegis Trident v. P3C”
etc.
maybe you’d get more responses. Although not sure if they’d be meaningful.
Unfortunately, don’t know much about Aegis bikes.
I still have a T2 around that I’ll probably sell sometime. I had two problems with it: 1) it was very hard to get as low as I wanted because of the big head tube 2) it was very hard to make a 56T chainring work without adding BB spacers.
– jens
Had mine (trident) 3 years now, only complaint is the paint will chip if a leaf hits it. Oh yeah, and the slight wheel cutout gets a + for looks, but the gap is 2x that of P3
If only I had boughten
I really hope this was a joke.
I’ve owned an Aegis Trident since 2002. It was my first “real” bike purchase so I don’t have a lot to compare it to. I road a number of different bikes before settling on the Trident – it just seemed right for me when I test-road it. I’ve been very happy with the bike.
Yes, the sizing runs low, I’m 6-2 and if I remember right, I’m on a 56’’ frame.
When I bought it, Aegis would ship a demo bike to a Aegis dealer that you could take and ride (since they are not normally carried in stores). This was a number of years ago, so things might have changed by now.
And you can pick your paint scheme, built right here it the good ole US, and the folks at the factory/company were very friendly and helpful.
I’ve had an Aegis Trident for two years now - I love it! It’s set up steep, and I can get very aero on it. I changed to it from a Softride, because I didn’t like the way the Softride flexed when climbing - wasting work. The Trident is an awesome climber. Someone said something about paint chipping easily - hadn’t noticed anything like that on mine…
Cheers, Frasertri.
Well they sponsor a professional tri team (Team Aegis, FKA Team Kenysis) and those guys seem to go pretty good on theirs. A local pro I know rides one and seems to like his.
i’ve had a Victory road bike for a couple of years, sweet ride, perfect geometry for me (long torso). Looked real hard at a T2, probably let myself get talked out of it by stuff here on ST.
I had aTrident for 5 years, I bought it because it simply fit and felt better than anything. I went to the bike store conviced i’d buy a Kestrel or QR.
Anyway went fine, it finally cracked, they helped me replace it with a crash discount I upgraded to the T2 and am happy as a pig in the soft brown stuff. I can’t say enough good about Aegis and their customer service, They sent out a new frame for me in two days without ever even looking at my cracked frame two weeks before IMLP last year. No questions, just “shit we need to get you a new bike and deal with the rest later.”
The paint does chip, the bike is built int he US so they can’t use a lot of the same paints that are legal in china and other manufacturing countries. I know other us built bikes are ok on the paint quality so they could do better there. My one wish and an over sight on the T2 is that there is no internal cable routing. There is on the trident. I have no idea why this is but it seems weird to me.
Over all I am very happy with the bike and will not replace it for the foreseeable future.
One word of advice though on the discount, if it does not fit then it isn’t worth it no matter how good the deal is.
I bought one last year, and I’ve been very happy with it. I worked directly with the people at Aegis along with my fitter, and got the right model and size for me. I’m 5’3" with a short torso, ended out on a 48 trident.
The Trident has been a triathlon staple for a long time. It seems like a very nice bike, and the fact that is made in the USA ought to count for something. The T2 seems like a second-rate copy of the P3, lacking horizontal dropouts among other features. Of all the bikes, the Trident seems the best for triathlon, and if you can get a good deal on one, and it fits, I think they are good bikes. Aegis has been doing carbon for a long time, and that is a big consideration when buying a carbon frame. If you want a road bike, the ITU Aegis Team rides on the Victory, which also seems to be a first rate bike. Either the Trident or the Victory would serve you well. Nothing too fancy, but good solid quality.
lacking horizontal dropouts ? there are horizontal dropouts