Sutton and Wellington interviews
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jhudalla posted 16 weeks ago.
That woman is a phenom. I realllllly hope shes not doping. Her win has to have inspired every weekend joe that has a decent swim to think they could be an ironman champ with just a few years of training.
Weary is the path that does not challenge.
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Toothless posted 16 weeks ago.
As the articles mention, the STI and drop bar setup is for Chrissie's bike handling issues. If you are racing a technical course and won't be spending much time in the aero position then this might be a good solution. If you are racing IM Florida, probably not.
I know a lot of folks that race IM's pretty fast and prefer something like the Cervelo Soloist with clip-ons and STI shifters, where you can adjust seat angle easily between tri and road geometry. I like bikes a lot, so I prefer having a different bike for each purpose!
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Joe_H posted 16 weeks ago.
didn't read them yet but she is on a friggin tear just came in second OVERALL for tri up the Alp D' Huez (spell?) I'm really hoping she isn't doping either.
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Leroy Bonkers posted 16 weeks ago.
So I'm thinking about that STI on TRI (I coined that phrase, it's mine) set up. My road bike is a POS 9speed Tiagra set up. My tribike is a sweet QR Tequilo with full DA.
But I ride the road bike most of the time for trainning because of the convenieince/safety of the STI in traffic. Why not be able to ride the nice bike more?
So has everybody read these interviews on ST?
http://www.slowtwitch.com/Interview/Brett_Sutton_Interview_Part_2_459.ht...
http://www.slowtwitch.com/Products/Chrissie_Wellington_s_Cervelo_P2C_466...
I immediately thought to myself "well heck, if some really fast people are riding STI shifters on tri bikes maybe I should too!" and then I thought "Well my buddies at ACME tri bike company surely know what they are doing"
STI shifters on tri bikes... from God or the Devil? .... Go!