Question Should triathletes be allowed on bikes?

[PACONi]

I had a good laugh on the Sunday morning when I went up Mt Nebo to the north of Brisbane. About a third of the way up I passed a good size (20-25) group of triathletes, most with aerobars and deep dish wheels on. The clincher was 3-4 people up there on their TT bikes. One guy was on a Merida Warp with Dura Ace C50's, Aero helmet trying to climb an 8%+ section in the aerobars .

I was in no mood to hang around these guys and girls as the descent back down into town is fairly technical. The chances of something crazy happening on the descent was quite high.

I've been doing Mt Glorious via Mt Nebo most weekends for almost 18 months. In all that time I've only ever seen 2 TT bikes and one of those I was riding (road bike was knackered with a busted shifter). Its a ****** of a climb on a TT bike.

 

[Polyarmour]

I had a good laugh on the Sunday morning when I went up Mt Nebo to the north of Brisbane. About a third of the way up I passed a good size (20-25) group of triathletes, most with aerobars and deep dish wheels on. The clincher was 3-4 people up there on their TT bikes. One guy was on a Merida Warp with Dura Ace C50's, Aero helmet trying to climb an 8%+ section in the aerobars .

I did the State TT on the weekend but leading up to it I didn't have a helmet. Went to a bikeshop and bought one. Huge thing didn't fit in my backpack. "I know" shop assistant says, "why don't you stick your road helmet in your backpack and ride home with your TT helmet on"? I look at him like he's from another planet and say "I'd rather stick broken glass up my a.s thanks" I eventually managed to tie it down...and ride home.

 

[Afrank]

Saw this on the cycling meme facebook page and it made me think of this thread.

 

[ElChingon]

Saw this on the cycling meme facebook page and it made me think of this thread.

Ha! I know a pro cyclist who did that, well there was no camera but the story was told as: "Humm... did I tighten my front skewer? Let me lift my front wheel while riding to see. Dough.... crash, bang, boom...".

 

[42x16ss]

I've been doing Mt Glorious via Mt Nebo most weekends for almost 18 months. In all that time I've only ever seen 2 TT bikes and one of those I was riding (road bike was knackered with a busted shifter). Its a ****** of a climb on a TT bike.

I have to admit that it was the first time that I've seen anyone up there on TT bikes, I was just a little surprised that anyone would take a setup like that there.

 

[runninboy]

I had a funny encounter in California with this one triathlete who was so into himself he had a camera crew following him in a van. They were taping him and basically telling him what a stud he was. I wanted to get home asap and this little entourage was in my way, So i just rolled by him. I didn't attack or jump just rolled by and said "Hey". From behind me i hear him yell at me" oh you wanna race? OK i got you" i turned looked at him and shook my head. This ****** makes this huge(for him)jump. But owing to the fact that he had been riding at less than 21mph when i passed he just couldn't catch my wheel. Him standing and hammering and me just sitting. His camera crew is screaming encouragement but he just couldn't hang. I hear him curse and grunt and finally give up. i swear i could not have been doing 25 mph(at the end of a long solo ride) and this "stud" on his tricked out carbon aero wheeled bike got dropped by a runner on an aluminum Giant with 8 speed.
priceless.

 

[ExRower]

I had a funny encounter in California with this one triathlete who was so into himself he had a camera crew following him in a van. They were taping him and basically telling him what a stud he was. I wanted to get home asap and this little entourage was in my way, So i just rolled by him. I didn't attack or jump just rolled by and said "Hey". From behind me i hear him yell at me" oh you wanna race? OK i got you" i turned looked at him and shook my head. This ****** makes this huge(for him)jump. But owing to the fact that he had been riding at less than 21mph when i passed he just couldn't catch my wheel. Him standing and hammering and me just sitting. His camera crew is screaming encouragement but he just couldn't hang. I hear him curse and grunt and finally give up. i swear i could not have been doing 25 mph(at the end of a long solo ride) and this "stud" on his tricked out carbon aero wheeled bike got dropped by a runner on an aluminum Giant with 8 speed.
priceless.

I'd rep you of i kmew how to rep

 

[BroDeal]

Just found this on Slowtwitch:

The next tri race I do, I've decided that, when and if I hear the "Eye Of The Tiger," song again, before a triathlon race, I'm just getting back into my car, and going home.

There's just no point in going on, after being forced to listen to the group "Survivor" before anything competitive, after high school, or junior high, at least. I thought that **** ended back then. But apparently it has not.

Its an assault on whatever dignity I have as an adult human being, if any anyway, to endure such madness, because not only is it played once, it's played throughout the race. "Rocky Music" must be the national anthem of Triathlon Racing. Yet, for as many intelligent people involved in this sport, we play goon music. And what simpletons get pumped up by this *** music? "Uhhhh, I was really feeling, tired, until that Rocky Music fired up, then everything sort of came together: the pictures of Rocky Balboa getting his *** kicked, and running up the Philly capitol, when he swallowed all of those eggs, the Adrian thing, his triumphant victory, and so on, oh....man, now I'm ready to hammer!"

And who, or which race director, keeps the Survivor CD? Or would admit to it? I bet he throws that son of a ***** away right after the race, for fear, that if he left it in his or her car, or accidentally brought it home, his friends might see it, and laugh at him.

And what an ordeal it must be to have forgotten to bring the Eye of the Tiger song, before the race:

"Uh, Gary. I just told everybody to come check in, get a bike rack, and get their timers on and so on. Where's the Rocky Music cd?"

"****, I forgot it."

"You forgot Eye Of the Tiger? How could you?"

"Yeah."

"Gary, we can't have the race until we fire up Eye of The Tiger."

"Well, I threw it away last year."

"I'll go run to Wal-mart real quick, and get that Survivor CD. Be right back."

"We don't have time. Give me the microphone, for a minute."

Microphone: "Okay, can I have everybody's attention. This includes you peole swimming out in the lake. Listen up. We lost the Eye Of The Tiger song, does anybody out there, happen, by chance have it, listening to it in their cars? And, listen, in case you do, Gary and I will turn our backs, so as not to see who actually owns that, and you can leave it at the table. Thanks."

 

[usedtobefast]

Just found this on Slowtwitch:

The next tri race I do, I've decided that, when and if I hear the "Eye Of The Tiger," song again, before a triathlon race, I'm just getting back into my car, and going home.

There's just no point in going on, after being forced to listen to the group "Survivor" before anything competitive, after high school, or junior high, at least. I thought that **** ended back then. But apparently it has not.

Its an assault on whatever dignity I have as an adult human being, if any anyway, to endure such madness, because not only is it played once, it's played throughout the race. "Rocky Music" must be the national anthem of Triathlon Racing. Yet, for as many intelligent people involved in this sport, we play goon music. And what simpletons get pumped up by this *** music? "Uhhhh, I was really feeling, tired, until that Rocky Music fired up, then everything sort of came together: the pictures of Rocky Balboa getting his *** kicked, and running up the Philly capitol, when he swallowed all of those eggs, the Adrian thing, his triumphant victory, and so on, oh....man, now I'm ready to hammer!"

And who, or which race director, keeps the Survivor CD? Or would admit to it? I bet he throws that son of a ***** away right after the race, for fear, that if he left it in his or her car, or accidentally brought it home, his friends might see it, and laugh at him.

And what an ordeal it must be to have forgotten to bring the Eye of the Tiger song, before the race:

"Uh, Gary. I just told everybody to come check in, get a bike rack, and get their timers on and so on. Where's the Rocky Music cd?"

"****, I forgot it."

"You forgot Eye Of the Tiger? How could you?"

"Yeah."

"Gary, we can't have the race until we fire up Eye of The Tiger."

"Well, I threw it away last year."

"I'll go run to Wal-mart real quick, and get that Survivor CD. Be right back."

"We don't have time. Give me the microphone, for a minute."

Microphone: "Okay, can I have everybody's attention. This includes you peole swimming out in the lake. Listen up. We lost the Eye Of The Tiger song, does anybody out there, happen, by chance have it, listening to it in their cars? And, listen, in case you do, Gary and I will turn our backs, so as not to see who actually owns that, and you can leave it at the table. Thanks."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPYF2p-cGx8

ok use this one

 

[PACONi]

Just found this on Slowtwitch:

The next tri race I do, I've decided that, when and if I hear the "Eye Of The Tiger," song again, before a triathlon race, I'm just getting back into my car, and going home.

There's just no point in going on, after being forced to listen to the group "Survivor" before anything competitive, after high school, or junior high, at least. I thought that **** ended back then. But apparently it has not.

Its an assault on whatever dignity I have as an adult human being, if any anyway, to endure such madness, because not only is it played once, it's played throughout the race. "Rocky Music" must be the national anthem of Triathlon Racing. Yet, for as many intelligent people involved in this sport, we play goon music. And what simpletons get pumped up by this *** music? "Uhhhh, I was really feeling, tired, until that Rocky Music fired up, then everything sort of came together: the pictures of Rocky Balboa getting his *** kicked, and running up the Philly capitol, when he swallowed all of those eggs, the Adrian thing, his triumphant victory, and so on, oh....man, now I'm ready to hammer!"

And who, or which race director, keeps the Survivor CD? Or would admit to it? I bet he throws that son of a ***** away right after the race, for fear, that if he left it in his or her car, or accidentally brought it home, his friends might see it, and laugh at him.

And what an ordeal it must be to have forgotten to bring the Eye of the Tiger song, before the race:

"Uh, Gary. I just told everybody to come check in, get a bike rack, and get their timers on and so on. Where's the Rocky Music cd?"

"****, I forgot it."

"You forgot Eye Of the Tiger? How could you?"

"Yeah."

"Gary, we can't have the race until we fire up Eye of The Tiger."

"Well, I threw it away last year."

"I'll go run to Wal-mart real quick, and get that Survivor CD. Be right back."

"We don't have time. Give me the microphone, for a minute."

Microphone: "Okay, can I have everybody's attention. This includes you peole swimming out in the lake. Listen up. We lost the Eye Of The Tiger song, does anybody out there, happen, by chance have it, listening to it in their cars? And, listen, in case you do, Gary and I will turn our backs, so as not to see who actually owns that, and you can leave it at the table. Thanks."

And that Its a beautiful day song by U2. So sick of this crap and the sponsor's village, finishers t-shirt, medal (although the towel does come in handy).

 

[winkybiker]

 

[BroDeal]

Oh, yes! The flying bike mount/dismount follies. Always a crowd pleaser.

 

[BroDeal]

And another one from Slowtwitch. 200 pounder worries about the "significant" 50 grams (That is 1/9th of a pound.) he could save with a Speedplay pedal rated for 185 lb max.


ow I haven't done the research but I believe these yellow beauties are coming out 10/12 ONLY in the titanium model speed plays, which have a 185lb weight limit. Im 200lbs and 6'4" so I'm a pretty large animal. Summer time I usually get down into the 194 range give or take a pound. But early season, fall I can be as much as 205.

My concern is if this fails when say you're out of the saddle attacking a climb, would such a failure cause you to potentially lose your manhood?

I think I can get my overweight figure down too 190lbs, maybe 189 but no way 185. There is also a significant 50 grams weight saving on these over the next ones down. Its about 210gram vs. 166 grams. So this is also another reason I want these over the lesser ones.

any thoughts? will the extra 6-20 lbs over the limit really matter?

 

[PACONi]

And another one from Slowtwitch. 200 pounder worries about the "significant" 50 grams (That is 1/9th of a pound.) he could save with a Speedplay pedal rated for 185 lb max.


ow I haven't done the research but I believe these yellow beauties are coming out 10/12 ONLY in the titanium model speed plays, which have a 185lb weight limit. Im 200lbs and 6'4" so I'm a pretty large animal. Summer time I usually get down into the 194 range give or take a pound. But early season, fall I can be as much as 205.

My concern is if this fails when say you're out of the saddle attacking a climb, would such a failure cause you to potentially lose your manhood?

I think I can get my overweight figure down too 190lbs, maybe 189 but no way 185. There is also a significant 50 grams weight saving on these over the next ones down. Its about 210gram vs. 166 grams. So this is also another reason I want these over the lesser ones.

any thoughts? will the extra 6-20 lbs over the limit really matter?

That guy is every bike company marketing departments wet dream.

 

[Afrank]

And another one from Slowtwitch. 200 pounder worries about the "significant" 50 grams (That is 1/9th of a pound.) he could save with a Speedplay pedal rated for 185 lb max.


ow I haven't done the research but I believe these yellow beauties are coming out 10/12 ONLY in the titanium model speed plays, which have a 185lb weight limit. Im 200lbs and 6'4" so I'm a pretty large animal. Summer time I usually get down into the 194 range give or take a pound. But early season, fall I can be as much as 205.

My concern is if this fails when say you're out of the saddle attacking a climb, would such a failure cause you to potentially lose your manhood?

I think I can get my overweight figure down too 190lbs, maybe 189 but no way 185. There is also a significant 50 grams weight saving on these over the next ones down. Its about 210gram vs. 166 grams. So this is also another reason I want these over the lesser ones.

any thoughts? will the extra 6-20 lbs over the limit really matter?

 

[42x16ss]

Another great one, starts innocently enough but apparently a couple of degrees on your hip angle and leaning a little forwards is quite a major issue

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/S...ike,_racing_on_a_tri_bike._Bad_idea_P4200492/

 

[personal]

Yesterday I saw what appeared to be a triathlete (he had a time trial style bike on a rear mounted rack with at least 2 bottles and those were mounted under the seat) driving his car to go training.

Ok here's the thing, he was driving while wearing his cycling helmet.

Please tell me this isn't considered normal....for anyone.

He wanted his car-bicycle transition to be as fast as possible.
He probably drove in his cleated bike shoes, too.

 

[SacCylclist]

That guy is every bike company marketing departments wet dream.

That's hilarious! And true enough

 

[BroDeal]

Time for another episode of great inventions in triathlon. Over at Slowtwitch some genius is working to revolutionize the cycling saddle as we know it. Here is his prototype.

 

[42x16ss]

Wow. Just when you thought SlowTwit couldn't get any funnier.

What is the purpose???? I'd love to know how they are supposed to train with that

 

[ElChingon]

I think that's rated XXX BroDeal, not sure its meant for the young-uns on this Forum.

 

[CobbleStoner]

ya, Mr. Garrison def comes to mind with that seat

and what is up with that frame? no wonder they crash so much, look how short the wheel base is.

 

[sublimit]

Time for another episode of great inventions in triathlon. Over at Slowtwitch some genius is working to revolutionize the cycling saddle as we know it. Here is his prototype.

That could pass as a US prototype Drone over Iran circa 2023. I'd be ******ed if I sat on something like that.

 

[veganrob]

This dude should just let people think he is an idiot rather than post pics of his invention and prove he is.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

You guys don't understand because you're not cyclists.

Its like the response I've gotten from non cyclist with regard to my adamo saddle, they don't comprehend how it works and says it looks like a torture device, but thats because they aren't cyclists and have never ridden a TT bike.