FWIW, the delta between the S and TT have been confirmed in road tests. On decent roads, as I think Kona would be, BRR and road tests correlate well.
And if you don’t want to trust any of that, look at how many TDF riders are using TT for road racing.
Then in that case… You need to stop talking about the importance of 25mm tires at higher pressure.. because NON of the major tour riders are doing that for the majority of the stages.
I dont think its about me trusting the report I think it’s just important for us to acknowledge that it’s based on a set of circumstances that might not apply here..
Let me try one more time
25mm have benefits in VERY SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES. 28mm, 30, 32….whatever also have their advantages in VERY SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES.
Low pressure has it’s advantage in VERY SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES. So does higher pressure (above 5 bar that is)
To have a wheel that allows me to adapt to any CIRCUMSTANCE, is superior to the wheel that imposes constraints. A wheel that allows me to use the current fastest is better than the wheel that can’t use it. More and more the tire imposes the size we are going to use. And Archetype 30 is faster than a TT 28. Archetype would probably be faster in 28 (on some roads) but it not available, so you go with 30. Not because 30 is faster or slower, because it’s the only size available.
We seem to always go off on a tangent - there is a major difference between TT/Tri and Road Racing in 21 Stages that are (almost) back-to-back, and drafting is allowed. If you are in pursuit of maximum speed, there is nothing wrong with a 25mm front tire on the correct width rim at the optimum pressure. In fact, depending on the road surface, it might be the best choice.
I think he’s just trolling me. Which is OK.
I like it too, it looks very similar to the Lidl-Trek factory team bikes.
She just posted this: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPolBHMDnl1/
She says she’s on 172.5mm cranks and appears to be poking some fun at this thread.
Google has her at 5’7” so it’s not height — I wonder if she is just naturally a grindier, lower cadence athlete.
Maybe she just has really long legs.
I didn’t take it that way. I took it as she’s not a huge tech person or bike guru and couldn’t tell you much else about the bike.
She’s running a Bontrager R3 front tire in one of those pics.
This is fun!
Please tell us more about these vs the TTs
no good, they are not 25 
1.) She very may well have been on 172.5 at that point, but when we got to shoot the bike, it had 170s on there.
2.) To that former point, keep in mind that when we took photos of some of the CADEX riding guys back in Nice, they very suddenly decided to swap from the CADEX Aero Cotton tire over to Conti’s at the last minute.
Which is why despite all of the questions and answers and photos we take before the race…I get to do a whole lot of photo inspection duty to produce those top 15 split articles next week.
I reckon it looks absolutely awesome! Heaps better than the boring monotone run of the mill stuff we have seen a million times before over the last 200 years..
Interesting how the strongest legs in women’s triathlon hasn’t gone for a 58 chainring like many of the others..?
Knibb has a SRAM 10t though whereas think all those on a 58t big dog are Shimano with an 11.
Yes, that’s 5.4 wheel rotations per crank rotation vs 5.27 wheel rotations per crank rotation or about 2.4% higher gearing with a 54-10 vs a 58-11.
I see the 00:00:00 is gone on these - I’ll be honest I still don’t really understand what that stood for. Although the Speed Cncpt made a tiny bit of sense on the fork for space, then on the seat stay I’d have thought that they could have had the name in full.
As for the paint scheme. These are pro bikes at the world champs. They are designed to be highly visible, not win the concours d’elegance. I admit Cube have been doing a great job with both for Lucy, the T100 London Underground being a real win.
