Poll: Aero or lightweight bike?

Aero or lightweight bike?

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Top end aero bikes are sub 7.5kg.
It more so comes down to ride, handling and comfort more than anything but most importantly, personal preference.

My next bike will be as an aggressive as possible aero bike. I weigh under 70kg myself and bike included, going for a bike that weights 6kg would be a waste of time as the aero gains on the flats and downhill (where I need them) are much more apparent than a weight weenie bike.
 
PermaBanned said:
Pros change wheels all the time depending on parcours, elevation, wind conditions... and even their shallow wheels are probably more highly engineered than anything you'll ever ride. As has been said, what you have to answer more than anything is what sort of riding will you be doing, and what's actually the most comfortable to ride?
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Never mind changing wheels from one stage to the next, pros change bikes mid stage sometimes! It's quite common to see someone take a regular lightweight bike up a hill on a TT then swap to a TT bike to come down the other side. As you say, you can't really compare your riding to what the pros are doing, you have to look at what you're doing and what you realistically can use bike wise.

Although I guess if you can persuade your Mrs to follow you up the hills with a TT bike in the back of the car, then more power to you...
 
Shamrock said:
Aero trumps weight!

Anyway, there is barely any difference in weight between the bikes. 300g is probably the Aeroad's deep rims. Also, once you've fitted pedals, tools, water bottles, garmin etc neither bike will be that light.

As Bear said, just lose a bit of bodyweight or buy the top of the range Aeroad which is 6.7kg. :D

EDIT: Poll is missing the n + 1 option of both? :p
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I was going to say, where's the both option?
 
FrenchTart said:
Is that confirmed? I thought I saw something on road.cc about a test bike.

I'd be so tempted by that.
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randomshenans said:
I saw something about the disc version. There was an image floating around of one anyway
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Disc brakes confirmed but eTAP with discs may be someway off.

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Vonhelmet said:
Aero is more advantageous on all but the hilliest courses. It's pricey, though.
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Even then, I reckon my TT bike is a number of minutes quicker than my road bike over a hilly TT course despite being about 4kg heavier.

As xdcx says, it's more about fit and feel than anything, but for performance reasons I'd always go aero unless it's a pure hill climb bike.
 
Shamrock said:
Even in a "pure hill climb" it's still aero trumps weight. People like Tejvan Pettinger (former national hill climb champ) would rather take the weight penalty and run a full carbon disc wheel.
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Cos it sounds awesome than any other reason.

Don't forget aero can mean bone shaker....

Can I have both? R5 with 65mm Enves under 6.4kg :p
 
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