Question Should triathletes be allowed on bikes?

[mewmewmew13]

I thought triathletes peed all over themselves all the time...

 

[krebs303]

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[mewmewmew13]

Okay...

I saw this on the street a couple of days ago and thought about BroDeal

 

[Boeing]

We may need a new thread titled "Should triathletes be allowed in pools?"

The guys at Slowtwitch argue about whether peeing in swimming pools is okay.

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=4361080

So you are saying it isn't?

 

[krebs303]

This guy is OK on the bike
Magnus Backstedt

 

[BroDeal]

I don't know if this is worse than peeing in a pool, but blowing snot rockets in one does not sound too cool to me. Triathletes tend to disagree. They are not big on showering before swimming either.

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=4429890

 

[mewmewmew13]

I don't know if this is worse than peeing in a pool, but blowing snot rockets in one does not sound too cool to me. Triathletes tend to disagree. They are not big on showering before swimming either.

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=4429890

Ugh!
Makes me cringe....

 

[ustabe]

Some of them are also not big on washing their bikes between peeing on them in the big race and having the local shop pack them for shipping. A personal experience.

 

[BroDeal]

Some of them are also not big on washing their bikes between peeing on them in the big race and having the local shop pack them for shipping. A personal experience.

Ewww. You should get danger pay for that.

 

[ustabe]

On the other hand, when Chrissie Wellington came to our shop I was absolutely delighted to meet her. I'd wrench for her any day.

 

[Boeing]

Just when I think I've seen it all from Tri Tools

In OC we have a bike path through Irvine, most call it back bay route. Its chill ride cool down after a hammer session and the route most coastal riders take to meet up Como or Foodpark etc. ya'll know it

there is a specific section passing a Korean Baptist Church near UCI, You may have read there was an elderly Korean woman killed by a cyclist there a few years ago.

Yesterday cruising along at about 15mph with a few others as bonked as ever, we encounter Tri Dude in his aero bars blasting through at like 22 dodging peds and cyclists all over yelling right of way or whatever. The crazy thing was he was one arm in the aeros, hammering and one had with a Gu trying to eat and yell and keep his pace with his headphones on. Obviously strava tri guy trying to keep his average speed up.

I mean WTF. Beyond the obvious disconnect Tri people have which is well documented here in this forum, isn't there common courtesy safety and logic that should override even the most dysfunctional person is a group? Beyond the clicks and vibe even???

All fun aside here this is really what this thread is about? Is it not?

Not to over shadow Tandem couple doing 25 with captain husband with his forearms on the flat section on the drops passing everyone....

the freaks come out in force here in socal when the temps push just above 75.

 

[42x16ss]

Perth is very similar at this time of the year Busselton 1/2 is in May, so there are all sorts of tools getting out and about. My better half nearly got flattened by a tri-geek in the aero's while running around Lake Monger the other day. Lake Monger is a very popular runner's spot and only about 2km away from the west coast highway with it's massive road shoulders AND bike lanes...

 

[42x16ss]

On the other hand, when Chrissie Wellington came to our shop I was absolutely delighted to meet her. I'd wrench for her any day.

Chrissie Wellington is a legend! And an exception to the rule (yes, they do exist )

 

[Elagabalus]

Some of them are also not big on washing their bikes between peeing on them in the big race and having the local shop pack them for shipping. A personal experience.

So ... Did that local shop do a good enough job packing your bike?*





*sorry ... apologies! It was laying right there ... what was I suppose to do ...?

 

[Nick777]

I thought you guys would like this.
I think it is tongue in cheek... but you can never be sure

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/S...lon_Forum_F1/altitude_tents_and_pets_P566398/

 

[BroDeal]

I thought you guys would like this.
I think it is tongue in cheek... but you can never be sure

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/S...lon_Forum_F1/altitude_tents_and_pets_P566398/

That sounds like a perfectly reasonable question. It could be a deal breaker when it comes to spending thousands of dollars on an altitude tent so you can shave a few seconds off your amateur race times.

 

[42x16ss]

That sounds like a perfectly reasonable question. It could be a deal breaker when it comes to spending thousands of dollars on an altitude tent so you can shave a few seconds off your amateur race times.

I think the OP is having a go at a JeffVader style thread and hasn't quite got it outrageous enough to work.

At least I hope so, it is Slowtwit...

 

[ustabe]

So ... Did that local shop do a good enough job packing your bike?*

I'll pretend I didn't read that.

 

[hiero2]

I'll pretend I didn't read that.

He did add, at the bottom

*sorry ... apologies! It was laying right there ... what was I suppose to do ...?

I thought that was pretty well done, myself!

 

[ustabe]

I'm not angry.

Just that it was so funny, I forgot to laugh.

OK, I'm laughing now.

 

[HXB12345]

Ha, looks like I'm a bit of a celebrity. Take it easy guys, I was a bike racer for a long time before I moved into triathlons. The seat was just an off the cuff random experiment that I wondered if it would be tri legal, since I came from the world of UCI, nothing inventive is legal. As a roadie I was obviously strong in a 73 degree angle and produced a lot of power with a strong drag of my foot which favored my hamstring muscles. Unfortunately I'm not very flexible so to get low when I became a triathlete I had to move very steep, unfortunately, this tendency to 'drag' my leg produced a strong sensation that I wanted to launch over the front end. So I was riding one day and I thought, this is crazy, but what if I had something to hold me back, so I fashioned this crude thing in about 10 minutes and tried it out. It was a bit of a joke for me at the time and I expected it would be super uncomfortable but it actually felt quite comfortable somehow and I could put out a lot of power with it, so I just wondered if it was legal in the tri world, never really pursued it, obviously was just a funny contraption I made, it worked in a sense, but functionally obviously lacked in numerous ways. You'll notice later mentioned in the thread that pro teams actually used a 'tether' contraption in the same fashion, something to 'pivot' against to gain leverage, theirs worked in the opposite way though.

The bike I'm riding in the video is simply as I called it, an 'x' bike. I used it simply to experiment with different positions, configurations (it had a quarq), in addition I built it to handle riding in the brutal Ohio winters when I lived there. Usually I just have flat bars on it, fully rigid, alfine 8 hub (pretty beastly hub with the abuse I gave it) and hydraulic disc brakes, essentially unstoppable when the snow gets deep.

The wheelbase for an XL specialized transition is huge relative to my height 5'11'', I got it because the longer wheelbase is more stable at angles of roughly 85 degrees where I ride, obviously I'm constantly ripping my stuff apart and rebuilding my bikes with different components like I did when I was a roadie.

Lastly, I get the annoyance with some triathletes, some you can't even have a conversation with because they don't understand basic terminology. From years of riding a bike, I personally believe you should be able to completely service your machine, tuning, fixing, rebuilding anything and everything. Most triathletes simply want their bikes placed before them, upon which they will ride them. Make no mistake though, some triathletes are wheelie riding, bike handling, aerobic beasts. Like me and for anyone that doubt this come on out to Boulder and I'll give you a tour up left hand canyon LOL.

Oh, lastly, a lot of tri guys ride in the aerobars up a hill as a way to work on muscle strength while in the specific position they're in while riding. I'm sure many of you do high gear work in the drops.

 

[Polyarmour]

No-one posting all of a sudden??
Well that post was a real party pooper.
Not much fun when the guy you're ridiculing turns up. Lol.
Well the seat thing did look a little strange but I'm all for innovation.
And I guess we spend a lot of time and money getting our position right on the bike in the shop only to slide all over the seat on the tarmac.
... Still can't see it catching on though.

 

[Boeing]

Ha, looks like I'm a bit of a celebrity. Take it easy guys, I was a bike racer for a long time before I moved into triathlons. The seat was just an off the cuff random experiment that I wondered if it would be tri legal, since I came from the world of UCI, nothing inventive is legal. As a roadie I was obviously strong in a 73 degree angle and produced a lot of power with a strong drag of my foot which favored my hamstring muscles. Unfortunately I'm not very flexible so to get low when I became a triathlete I had to move very steep, unfortunately, this tendency to 'drag' my leg produced a strong sensation that I wanted to launch over the front end. So I was riding one day and I thought, this is crazy, but what if I had something to hold me back, so I fashioned this crude thing in about 10 minutes and tried it out. It was a bit of a joke for me at the time and I expected it would be super uncomfortable but it actually felt quite comfortable somehow and I could put out a lot of power with it, so I just wondered if it was legal in the tri world, never really pursued it, obviously was just a funny contraption I made, it worked in a sense, but functionally obviously lacked in numerous ways. You'll notice later mentioned in the thread that pro teams actually used a 'tether' contraption in the same fashion, something to 'pivot' against to gain leverage, theirs worked in the opposite way though.

The bike I'm riding in the video is simply as I called it, an 'x' bike. I used it simply to experiment with different positions, configurations (it had a quarq), in addition I built it to handle riding in the brutal Ohio winters when I lived there. Usually I just have flat bars on it, fully rigid, alfine 8 hub (pretty beastly hub with the abuse I gave it) and hydraulic disc brakes, essentially unstoppable when the snow gets deep.

The wheelbase for an XL specialized transition is huge relative to my height 5'11'', I got it because the longer wheelbase is more stable at angles of roughly 85 degrees where I ride, obviously I'm constantly ripping my stuff apart and rebuilding my bikes with different components like I did when I was a roadie.

Lastly, I get the annoyance with some triathletes, some you can't even have a conversation with because they don't understand basic terminology. From years of riding a bike, I personally believe you should be able to completely service your machine, tuning, fixing, rebuilding anything and everything. Most triathletes simply want their bikes placed before them, upon which they will ride them. Make no mistake though, some triathletes are wheelie riding, bike handling, aerobic beasts. Like me and for anyone that doubt this come on out to Boulder and I'll give you a tour up left hand canyon LOL.

Oh, lastly, a lot of tri guys ride in the aerobars up a hill as a way to work on muscle strength while in the specific position they're in while riding. I'm sure many of you do high gear work in the drops.

proof that fitness is not a skill set

 

[Boeing]

A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.

 

[mewmewmew13]

A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.

Well said!

I'm keeping my eyes open for our new bike seat poster
I live in Boulder!