Poll: Aero or lightweight bike?

Aero or lightweight bike?

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Shamrock said:
I'm not going to mock how people choose to spend their monies but it was interesting to see how many people were riding TT bikes on Sunday during a half Ironman that couldn't actually use their aero bars. Might as well be on a road bike at that point?
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This has been my point to a lot of people they seem to think sticking your arms out in front somehow makes you faster. :confused:

I'm not going to follow the trend here either. Unless you are racing or live where its flat (the Dales aren't) a lightweight bike is preferable to an aero version. Sure if you're already a cat 2 racer you'll already know this.
 
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zophiel said:
they might get a bit quicker in moving people to disc brakes when campag get the range in order and release the bloody thing.
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I doubt it. Campag make up a tiny segment of the groupset market, and certainly a tiny part of the OEM off the shelf bike market. It's all about dat Shimano, and they've already got their disc offerings out there.
 
Aero. Every day of the week.

Although I currently have a Ribble Reynolds 525 steel bike with 35mm Fulcrum Racing Quattro wheels so I'm all over the place. My next bike will be a Giant Propel though, I'd take that over the TCR every day of the week. I hauled my backside up the Col Du Grand Ballon last week on the steelie and it was fine. Most of the weight penalty was my stomach. :p
 
Vonhelmet said:
There's always people showing up in the road.cc forums fretting about whether to spend £3k to save a kilo of bike when by their own admission they need to lose about 10...
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If they can afford it and it gives them the motivation to go out and ride it then it can only see it being a good thing. No point in buying a cheap bike and not wanting to ride it.

If they spend a wad then makes them feel bad for wasting money not riding it or it makes them keep looking at it because it looks so damn good that they want to blast it about everywhere then its done its job
 
Equally, well paid tubbies buying 6/7/8k bikes that sit in their spare bedroom/shed for a year and have never been used are likely to put them on Gumtree/eBay for cyclists to buy at cheap rates.

It's all good :)
 
xdcx said:
I was out and done 65km and 600m climbing on the TT bike last weekend and was very much quicker indeed. Who'd have thought it, the heavier aero bike was indeed quicker :p
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Of course it will be. We are talking about the difference in an aero or lightweight road frame. A Venge is said to be worth <1 min over a 50km course over the Tarmac i'm pretty sure in real world where people are weighing in at 2.5W/Kg and about as aero as a bus it accounts for naught.
 
Indeed.
I was on a 100 mile Sportive yesterday with two friends. One on an Aeroad and the other using an S-Works Venge . With 30 miles to go they both ran out of fitness and drafted me back to the finish on my cheapy Spesh Alu Allez. My whole bike (including my PM) was cheaper than each of their wheel sets.
 
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