so this weekend i might be doing my first tri on a road bike (soloist), aside from flipping the seat post around and adding the shortee bars i have, anything else i should know?
If the course has big hills, you’ll probably climb better 
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You do not necesarily have to flip the seat post around when adding short aerobars. Both my son and my Godson ride Soloists. My son needs to flip the seat post around in his size 54 Soloist and my Godson does not on his size 51 Soloist. Flipping or not the seat posts depends on many factors. Just try to get the best fit without the notion that you necesarily have to flip the seat post.
Good luck,
Sergio
i did try getting down without flipping it, not going to happen.
if you haven’t been training on the different seat angle and shorty bars, I wouldn’t race with them. Changing your position changes a lot of variables. It would suck to get halfway through the ride and discover you are now overworking some small support muscle and wind up blowing the run, all for the sake of a mph or two.
take out all spacers and use as neg a stem as you can (like the -10 degree Visiontech sizemore). I really liked the Profile T2+ instead of shortys as well.
rod,
i already have all the spacers out, and the stem flipped over as is, am getting a longer/steeper stem soon, but not here yet.
My g/f is getting a B2 sometime in the next week, but its not here yet so she is using my tri bike this weekend ,and i am racing on the soloist. the T2s i have will be used on there when i race it after this, but right now jsut have the shortees.
also, i think i am coming down to KY to shoot during the race, good luck with that!!
an adjustable stem will go much lower than -10 degrees. however, stay away from the oval concepts one … its materially robust but the bolt positioning for the clamp is woeful. plan on 10minutes to perform even the slightest adjustment of the bars.
guess what i have on my tri-fied spectrum custom ti road bike?
take out all spacers and use as neg a stem as you can (like the -10 degree Visiontech sizemore). I really liked the Profile T2+ instead of shortys as well.
Something like this I guess.
Sergio
Shorty bars are designed for a road geometry. You’ve modified this geometry by flipping the seat around. I have a similiar situation on my Kestrel Talon. In the road position I would use shorty bars. I have longer ones for when the seat is forward. You may want to lower your drop bars by removing a spacer or two in the forward postion.
The advice I’d give for both these bikes is don’t try to get too forward on them by putting the saddle as jammed forward as possible. These bikes are designed for a maximum 75/76 effective seat angle which you’ll get with the saddle centered. They perform very well at this position and trying to go too far forward will negatively effect handling.
if you haven’t been training on the different seat angle and shorty bars, I wouldn’t race with them. Changing your position changes a lot of variables. It would suck to get halfway through the ride and discover you are now overworking some small support muscle and wind up blowing the run, all for the sake of a mph or two.
The above advise is good advise. Reading your initial post again I realize that you are going to try the new position without training a reasonable amount of time on it and as vortmax mentioned, it is not a good idea.
Sergio
Yup - I’d say that looks (and obviously performs) just about perfect!
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which is why i am trying it out this weeknd in a sprint duathlon that doesnt really matter.
I move back and forth between a road and a tri bike with a decent amount of drop without issues. i am assuming this will not be as fast the first few times and i might get sore/not prefrom as well, but i would like to try it out, and let my girlfriend get a good race in before her bike shows up.
thanks for the advice so far
Ooooh…I want that bike!!
Ooooh…I want that bike!!
It is easy, just tell your dad that you will raise your GPA from “Good” to “Very Good”. 
Sergio