Has anyone done the Memphis in May MTB triathlon, and if so, could it be done on a cross bike? Looking at the pictures, it looks doable, but is there some section that would make it dumb to do. All the pictures show a grassy field that actually looks perfect for a cross bike.
I’m doing the regular race the next day and just thought it would be a fun workout the day before. I don’t own a MTB but do have a cross bike.
you cant use a cross bike per the rules.
I believe you and it would make sense as a smart policy, but I can’t find any rules listed.
I have a jacked up right wrist that won’t bend how god originally intended so I have a real, real hard time riding flat bar bikes.
I have no idea where it is now, email them to make sure but im 100 percent sure it was a rule last year.
You can’t use the cross bike. The issue is that it’s much faster to do the course on a cross bike than a mountain one. There are rules on tire width that exclude cross bikes.
It’s fine for the road tri though.
You know we could come up with a whole new level of pain and suffering by having a Cross - Triathlon. OK, I won’t sign up. Just a thought.
the whole no-drop-bars-in-x-terra/mtb/-tri rule makes this sport the lamest on earth.
market an “extreme” sport to a bunch of skirts, and put a rule in place insuring nobody beats them on a bike with drop bars to convince them how “extreme” they are. what a joke of a sport.
the whole no-drop-bars-in-x-terra/mtb/-tri rule makes this sport the lamest on earth.
market an “extreme” sport to a bunch of skirts, and put a rule in place insuring nobody beats them on a bike with drop bars to convince them how “extreme” they are. what a joke of a sport.
Is that how the rule is written? No drop bars?!?! I was going to suggest to the OP with the wrist problem that he could put drop bars on his MTB!
Sorry to hear about your wrist. I find MTB bars uncomfortable because I have particularly wide shoulders and find that my arms are reaching to the grips from outside the bar ends and the bend in the bars is the other way requiring a lateral crank of the wrist.
It seems to me that bar makers are missing the boat.
However, it has occurred to me that it would be feasible to turn the bars around backwards (thinking straight bar, but riser bars could do this too). It would have the bars sweeping away from you as they travel out from the stem which is a more straight grab for the hands. It would just require a differently sized stem. (oh, and logos would be upside down).