I just purchased an '09 Felt B12 on closeout and so far am loving it! I loved the price even more.
With that said, I’ve still got my road bike (2009 Wilier Izoard) that I purchased before I got into triathlon. I’m debating on selling. I love riding but never plan on any road racing apart from TTs (no crits or stage races…at least not at the moment) and want to invest my time and energy in triathlon. Most all of my riding is alone or with another group of triathletes. The roads are predominantly flat in my area so I don’t climb a lot and I just feel like I could save some money by selling the road bike and maybe investing in some wheels and using the leftovers for saving (!) and other little things I still need (wetsuit, etc). I’ve read all the talk about it being good to have both but the allure of having some money in my pocket and being able to invest in a nicer wheelset are pretty tempting.
I feel like I can get away with just one bike…my tri bike. Am I crazy? Does this sound like a bad idea?
I never understoond why anyone would wnat to keep two bikes until I had two bikes.
Now, I love love love having both a road bike and a tri bike (and a track bike and a MTB and…). I kcan keep one on the trainer and one off. I can switch things up for variety. When one is dirty/needs repairs. etc., I can ride the other.
Be a man: donate your road bike to someone who wants to enter the sport, but doesn’t have the scratch.
must be nice to be able to donate a $3,000+ bike…if you’re donating, I’M ACCEPTING! Grad student w/ a lot of student loan debt…plasma donation is sounding great right now.
Pm me with a price if you want to sell I alays loved that bike but could not afford. If you ask me there is nothing wrong with having two bikes or more for that matter.
I personally keep my road bike for the simple fact its much safer riding in a group, its more verastile and safer for riding on the street as well. Where I live theres plenty of traffic and lights, a road bike is needed if I want to get any sort of bike workouts in on a regular basis during the week.
Always keep bikes … very bad karma to part with a bike that you’ve owned and ridden. Bikes are not meant to be given away … they want to be kept and cared for;-)
Dave
You’ve got an 2009 Wilier that “I purchased before I got into triathlon.” Did you get into triathlon on the way home from the bike shop? Sell the road bike and put the money into dojo fees for when you get into aikido next spring.
I sold my road bike when I got my tri bike. Needed the dough. I only train and race for triathlon and always alone, so no real “need” for a road bike. The only time I regret it is when I have my bike in for repairs or ship it to an IM and have to ride my mountain bike for the final week leading up to the IM. Other than that, no real regrets. Now, if someone GAVE me a road bike, or I was wealthy, I’d probably use it in the off season for bike training.
I feel your pain, but resist the urge to sell the road bike. There are times when you will want to have it for long training rides, group rides, riding on an indoor trainer. I have one road bike and a couple of tri bikes and am thankful that I kept my road bike.
Do I need to remind you of the formula for determining the perfect # of bikes to own?
P = N + 1
(where P is the Perfect # of bikes to own, and N is the Number of bikes you currently own)
Anyway, I still currently own every single bike I’ve had as an adult. Currently up to 5 as of last week’s major addition of the P4 to the stable.
Partly for sentimental reasons, partly cuz the older ones are all beat to shit and wouldn’t fetch very much $, and partly cuz they are worth a lot more to me to have around, than what I might be able to sell them for.
As long as you have the room for it, are not going to lose your home for the lack of $ you would get from selling it, and will ride it at least a handful of times a year, then why not keep it?
Grab a cup of coffee, slap yourself on the face, and keep your bike.
I have a policy, to keep my life simple. I buy bikes, I don’t sell bikes.
Ya gotta have a road bike for, well, riding on the road. Even as a committed trigeek, I keep a road bike. In fact I just bought one last week as a crash replacement. My old bike? Being turned into a fixie. Sure, it will only get ridden once or twice a year, down to the shops on a nice sunny day, but why sell it?
So far I have a road bike, a tri bike, a MTB, a unicycle (that I STILL cant ride) and a museum bike (early QR that I’m restoring so it can hang on the wall for all to see)
AND I have plans for a FS MTB and a cruiser bike, plus a chrome low rider bike with 100 spoke wheels with white wall tires could probablyfit in my shed too!
Keep your road bike and ride it on days you ride with a group, or just so you can see stuff while you ride.
i’d sell my car before I’d sell the bike:>) Seriously i love having more than one bike for variety, different conditions (group rides or trips to the mountains), having one on the trainer, if one is in the shop, etc…
Okay, okay. I’m definitely going to hold on to the bike…at least for now. If I can manage, aka afford, to have both as well as pick up the few other things I need they’ll both continue to live in the stable known as my bedroom.
Apart from the convenience (a bike for the trainer, group riding bike etc.) are there any fitness benefits or physiological benefits gained from riding a road bike vs. a tri bike? I’ve always wondered this.
