my wifey has started getting into triathalons, she takes our one bike with her and i have nothing to ride
I'm gonna save up to buy a triathalon specific bike so I can do the next one with her-
Anyone have a triathalon bike? or know the advantage of the handlebars?
This is the bike we have now and it seems fine, whats the point of the forward facing handlebars.. the tour de france bikes don't have them
buy a fixie
seriously? that sounds horrible for a triathalon, you can't burn yourself out on the highest gear when you have to run a 10k right after you finish the ride
>that moment you remember no one on Veeky Forums can actually do cardio
this was probably a bad place to ask about competitive fitness sports like triathalons.
how tf do these niggas breather in this position
They have good thoracic mobility
come to a lot better to talk about bikes
The reason TdF riders don't use TT bikes is mainly for the geometry, they're not sprinting for 120km every segment. You should probably get a normal roadie if you're not a pro or anything, it'll be a lot more durable for training.
alright thanks friend
buying a bike with suspension is a much better choice. I bike 14 miles a day, to and from college. road bikes are for fags anyways
Enjoy your erectile dysfunction.
Bike seats compress the perineal artery that supplies the penis with blood. Cycling just 3 hours a week increases your risk of ED by 400%.
Not trolling. Go to scholar.google.com and do some searches, read the studies.
Question how tall is your wife
I usually lift heavy, but if there's one cardio I do support it's cycling.
They're just so pretty.
tribikes are garbage machines designed to take your money.
you need to max out your potential on a roadbike waaaaayyyyyyy before you need specialized equipment for anything, and since every tri has a different course, the idea that a unitary bike style is going to magically up your V02 max is pure fuckin bullshit
She's not Javier Fuckin Gomez. learn your sport before you buy gear you don't understand or need
Buy a unicycle for the lulz
bike seats need to be fitted like shoes. everyone has a specific sit bone width and pelvic depth, and you need the saddle that fits yours. It is not optional, esp if doing something like trihardathons
It's for aero. Triathletes are honestly kinda looked down upon in the broader cycling community for being gear obsessed dweebs. Tridorks will get the most ridiculous aero bike while still having a big ass beer gut or just not train enough bc they have the best bike.
Get a normal roadie like the one you share with your wife and focus on training. More versatile, and you'll have a better time riding, meaning you're more likely to actually train on the thing. Tris are mostly about having the strongest heart, biggest lungs, and best legs, not the best bike or running shoes or whatever.
Also please don't listen to the fucking doofus telling you to get a mountain bike for a tri holy shit
>This is retarded. Best thing for OP to do would be to buy a road bike. Suspensions literally sap watts.
If your ass is so sore from getting pounded by your boyfriend, get a hardtail at most.
Yeah, equipment is a huge meme in Cycling. You go 98% as fast on a $400 road bike properly set up as you would on a space-machine tri-bike.
OP you MUST MUST MUST get a regular road bicycle to train on. Triathalon bikes are very aerodynamic but also very uncomfortable. You don't want to do all your training laying down on your top tube. Even pro TT specialists only use the TT bike one day a week.
While you're at it, get a UCI-sanctioned TT bike, so that you can race those, if you want to.
Mirror all other comments. Get a normal roadside and train on that. You can add these aero bars to any road cycle... I don't like them, but hey, it's your bike.
An mtb at a triathlon would be pants on head retarded.
you seriously spent all that money in that gorgeous bike without even knowing what is aerodynamics? why?
>tfw chained stretched to shit
>all gears chowdered
>tfw cant be bothered to replace the shits
buy a hybrid
Don't get a tri-bike unless you plan to compete in the Ironman regularly. Even then the distance is 180Km.
Otherwise a road bike will do even for a half-Ironman. You'll get more use out of a road bike than a tri-bike.
if you're not deadly serious about competing, instead of buying an expensive and not versatile at all triathlon / time trial bike, you could buy another road bike and just put a pair of aero bars. TT / triathlon bike frames are usually super stiff and uncomfortable, and the handlebars only gives you 2 different positions, which is terrible for anything but competing in a TT / triathlon. a road bike with aero bars is more comfortable and versatile, and good enough to compete for fun. and it's also usually way less expensive.
What if I cycle for just two hours and fifty-nine minutes?
You can throw some clip ons on that bike and be good to go
no
No issue breathing vs a normal bike
Dumb post
TT/Tri bikes way easier on the junk since you sit off the end of the seat. I used an Adamo seat and never had an issue.
Nonsense
You can train 100% on a TT/tri bike if it's not ridiculously agressively fit
My old setup, I only ride MTB these days
>cycling
>wifey
confirmed no balls
>no fun allowed
>i only ride mtb these days
looks like your life really changed. i'm glad for you m8
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>You can throw some clip ons on that bike and be good to go
It's called a magazine
Not if you buy a seat correctly sized for your hip bones.
I've looked at studies and they all say that bike seats causing ED and infertility is a meme
Is there anything wrong with buying a cheap folding bike to just do laps of my local lake with? I don't like running, and I'm too fat for swimming. I was just gonna get a folding bike, stick in my car and ride around the bike track at my lake every other day for some cardio.
Though, I don't want penis or ball problems.
nothing wrong.
and you couldn't stand being on a folding bike long enough to have ball problems. don't worry.
heh.
>buy a fixie
OP said "triathalon", not "actual, literal, homoerotic butt sex".
I just rode 6 hours the other day and was still able to ejaculate inside my girlfriend's vagina (unprotected, of course) later that night.
>wifey
are you a closet homosexual?
>riding bicycles
are you a child?
there's 2 things i hate more than Muslims and communists and its horse riders and cyclists. every time i pass them in my car i have to fight the urge to swerve and hit them.
i like to give cyclist approx. 1inch of room so they know they are not welcome on my roads.
I bet I pay more taxes than you, so they're more my roads than yours anyway.
Tris are won or lost in the 10k. A standard light weight road bike, similar to the pic you posted will be fine unless you're a Brownlee brother
This. Check Durianrider on YouTube, he's a bit of a cunt but knows bikes and knows cycling and has lots of tips
OP here, this is the bike I bought today, love it
it's true that most bike seats are shaped as if they're designed to pummel your taint, but just get a horseshoe shaped saddle that lets your tackle hang down and you're fine.
manlet detected
triathlets are faggots, and I'm not talking about the "Op is a faggot" kind of faggots.
So listen up:
If you call a triathlon thread a cycling thread one more time, I will find you, and it's not going to be fun.
difference between road bike and trifaggot bike? does it come with a dildo? is it just overpriced garbage?
That, a set of toeclips/straps and a pair of aerobars will take you far. When you get tired of being a trifag and want to do a real velosport, you can swap out the tires, but a riser on the headset and do cyclocross on that frame without an issue
I have this cheap fag since 2007. Best purchase ever, after a PC