I just picked up a new road bike (to me anyway, an '07 Cervelo Soloist carbon DA) to help me share my training load.
What I want to do is keep my tri bike with disk and deep front set up 24/7, and only take it out once a week for a long race pace ride and also use it once inside for some power/speed work on the trainer. The rest of the time outside I think I want to be logging my other long miles on the roadbike as well as use it for shorter/faster rides and hill work.
Does anyone else do their training this way for those of you that have both a road and tri bike? Does this way of training make sense?!?!
I train on what I race. I race my tri-bike, so that gets the lion’s share of the miles. Also, don’t use your race wheels for training, not only do you look silly, but if you hit a pothole or big rock in the road, you just broke about $2K worth of wheels. Not worth the risk in my opinion.
I think what you both mean is “wouldn’t it be great if a determined percentage of your income went towards bikes and there was some left over for good in the world?” and “Yes, it would. Just make sure you don’t hate if I make enough to buy myself several P4s because I support an entire village in wherever.”
Next post → “No that’s stupid. You don’t have to help anyone but yourself. You earned it!!”
Last post → “We live a privileged life. There are very, very few of us.”
My tri bike is for races and solo training rides.
My road bike is for group rides with the local bike club and century bike tours where the aero bars might not be welcome. There are months where the road bike gets 70% of the miles I ride.
Well I was going to pick up a new S1 as my new road bike to do more of my training on, then in the middle of this purchase, I found the “deal” on the used carbon soloist, which cost me 20% less than the S1…so you do the math…me, I liked the deal, and I love the ‘hatred’ from most of you for being able to train on a “$4k training bike”. Oh, and I raise more than that in charity every year for the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, http://www.cancer.dartmouth.edu/ .
…but I will take what you are saying about not training solely on my race wheels,…I just asked about that because I don’t have any outdoor experience with a disk/deep front, and figured I should get out there and train on them for at least 1 long ride every once in a while, so i just figured it to be weekly.
(and for more reference, the BW set was purchased for less than 1K, and are on a P2C, not a P3C)
Been discussed many, many times before. Mant of the top IM pros do much if not most of their training on a road bike. They tend to increase tri bike training closer to the event however. The other advantage of a road bike is that it builds core strength. Building core strength on a tri bike is less due to skeletal rather than muscular positional support. With your road bike you should also join a roadie group and improve your cycling skills, something you won’t do riding solo.
I’ve always had one or the other. Don’t have enough to afford both. I do have a 50/50 ride of group/alone and the road bike is always more versatile. I also feel more liberated on the road bike than on the tri bike(I think it’s a control issue- the steeper tri makes me feel more twitchy on the bike). Although at the end of the day, I’d personally pick a mountain bike/road bike stable over a road bike/tri bike stable but that’s just me.
Why not ride the tri bike a bit more, but with the wheels from the road bike? It’s not like it takes more than a minute to swap out wheels.
Getting in some rides on the race wheels is a good idea, since you want to know what to expect, how they feel, etc.
No need for that weekly - you are just increasing the chance of damaging your spendy wheels, when you have cheaper ones that are made for that very purpose.
Riding your tri bike w/ race wheels on the trainer is punching your one-way ticked to Fredville.
Be sure to go for the full Fred effect and run the aero helmet and GPS too.
Oh, im not complaining saying you spend more on the bike you can spend whatever you want im cool with that. And like i said if i had money and a reason to have a 6k road bike id be buying one.
I just think its not a very smart idea to train on race wheels.
Case in point, last week at lonestar i hit a indented man hole cover and dented/broke my disc. I was pretty pissed but id be even more pissed if i did that while doing a training ride.
I do most of my training on my road bike, due to all the climbing out here. When I ride the Tri bike, it’s with training wheels. The disc is only for races. This is because:
-it’s less comfortable
-don’t wanna wear out the expensive rubber
-don’t wanna ruin a disc in a training crash
-wanna feel faster on race day
-fellow riders aren’t comfortable around you if you have a disc on (worried about handling/crashes)
