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| 2007/5/14-16 [Transportation/Bicycle] UID:46629 Activity:nil |
5/14 I've started getting into biking recently and started looking
around at the types of bikes out their in the market. One
thing I've noticed was that there were these super-expensive
high-end bikes like Look and Cervelo that looked pretty advanced
and would empty out your wallet in no time. Many of them had
the triathlon geometry. Why is it that people like Lance
Armstrong opt for more conventional bikes like Trek road
bikes. It seems like someone with so much riding on the line
would go for something ridiculously expensive but his bike
isn't even a time-trial bike.
\_ 1) doesn't Lance have different bikes for different stages?
2) Lance opts for Trek because Trek pays Lance and makes
whatever he tells them to make (at least for geometry etc)
\_ Tri bikes are set up to be aerodynamic and use different muscle
groups. They aren't the best for hills or manueverability. Same
goes for trial bikes. -scottyg
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\_ Professional cyclists at that level are constrained in their
choice of equipment by their governing body, Union Cycliste
Internationale (UCI). They're allowed to use more aerodynamic
bikes in time trials than they are in massed start road races.
The bikes used in time trials use similar setups to those used
by triathletes, while those used in massed start road races are
what you're probably thinking of. UCI has a long history of
changing the rules about what's legal (or not) to suit the desires
of its sponsors (the big companies in the bike industry). Bikes
used in triathlons are governed by ITU rules, which aren't as
backward, but maintain a similarly narrow definition of what
constitutes a bicycle. If you're not planning on racing, then
get whatever you enjoy riding (for me, that's a recumbent -- banned
by UCI since 1934). --alawrenc |
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