Today I received the new triathlete mag. The first double-sided ad of a bike manufacturer says:
“the Giant SHIV is the world’s fastest bike!”
That’s great I think so that might be just right for me and I turn a few pages and see the next double-sided bike ad from Trek of course
stating that the world’s fastest bike comes from Trek … that leaves me a little bit astonished and I think maybe they don’t know of each
other and I continue turning pages only to find out that athletes receive their world’s fastest bike from Felt ( just a single page ad - how disappointing!) … hmmm … I think I’ll buy all of them and - even without any bike training at all - will soon be the bike leg record holder of my next race.
Buy them both and then go find a long descent somewhere to push them down side-by-side. The bike that gets to the bottom first you keep, the other one goes on eBay.
Technically, wouldn’t it be the bike that John Howard rode to the world land speed record? Otherwise, I guess it’s all disclaimers. Like:
“World’s Fastest Bike (in the 2008 junior men’s time trial)” // “World’s Fastest Bike (in the 4km pursuit)” – Felt (Taylor Phinney in both cases)
“World’s Fastest Bike (in the 2008 men’s time trial)” – Giant (Bert Grabsch)
"World’s Fastest Bike (in the 2009 Tour de France TTT & ITT) – Trek (Astana, Contador)
So you can look at it as “false advertising,” or you can look at it that all of these bikes have been ridden the fastest in some pretty major competitions, so it seems justifiable to me to say “fastest bike in the world,” since in all cases, they have been.
Bikes are completely stationary until someone gets on them and starts to ride…
If half the posters on this forum would spend the amount of time doing group rides and training races with road racers and working on their positioning and economy of form that they do worrying about what bike/wheel/waterbottle/bartape is ‘faster’ there…oh, wait, there wouldn’t be a forum…
I always respect the scientific facts but not always whats tested in a controlled lab reflects same results as a the real world. I am not implying anything but how come one person goes to a wind tunnel and only the products related to him or her shows as “fastest”?
This goes for J. Cobb, S. Hed, Zipp, and a god load of bike manufacturers. I am fucking sick and tired of reading the “FASTEST BIKE IN THE WORLD” lie. It is FUNNY! Just pick your last issue of triathlete Magazine! 3 ads! Felt and Trek claim they are the fastest bikes in the world. Now in INSIDE TRIATHLON this is even funnier cause now Giant has an ad saying the same thing.
Giro claims they are the fastest aero helmet, Lazer claims best aero helmet and now Rudy says it is the fastest.
