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Tri bike or roadbike

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  • April 17, 2015 at 11:50 pm #23770
    Vector

    I had a specialized tarmac that i sold a year ago and i then started mountainbiking instead. Now i feel that mountainbike is not as funny as it was when i was young and i miss my Tarmac.
    I bike by my self almost 100% of the time and i have besinning to think of a Specialized shiv instead of a venge. Is that a stupid bike to buy, not doing triathlons?

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  • April 18, 2015 at 7:08 pm #841979
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    Joeinpoole

    Vector wrote:Judge..im from

    Vector wrote:
    Judge..im from sweden…is that good or bad?…

    He meant that the Shiv attracted the attention of bike thieves … so it is bad in that respect.

    Have you considered the Diverge from Specialized? Very versatile as it is good for both roads and trails.

    April 18, 2015 at 5:59 pm #841977
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    Vector

    Judge..im from sweden…is
    Judge..im from sweden…is that good or bad?…

    April 18, 2015 at 2:10 pm #841975
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    Judge dreadful

    I had a Shiv pro race last
    I had a Shiv pro race last year. It was like a bloody thieving scumbag magnet.

    April 18, 2015 at 11:57 am #841973
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    Al__S

    Riding tri bikes basically
    Riding tri bikes basically means riding only on your own- they’re unsuited to group riding and usually banned from organised riding, be it club rides or sportives.

    April 18, 2015 at 6:48 am #841971
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    Vector

    That was just the information
    That was just the information that I needed. I’ll go for a Venge or tarmac instead.

    April 18, 2015 at 6:28 am #841969
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    3cylinder

    TT/tri bikes are the
    TT/tri bikes are the equivalent of an open top track car (think ariel atom rather than MX5) – great for doing that specific thing, but compromised or useless for the rest.

    I suspect there are very few people who have a TT bike and not a road bike as well, and they will be people who just got the bike for a triathlon and do 90% of their cycling on a turbo.

    Get the regular road bike.

    April 18, 2015 at 5:29 am #841967
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    giobox

    Yes, I’d say its kinda
    Yes, I’d say its kinda stupid. I am fortunate to have both road bikes and a tri-bike, and the tri-bike spends most of its life in the garage.

    Climbing on a tri-bike sucks. Unless you plan to ride flat routes constantly or do triathlons, a normal road bike is considerably more versatile. They are also not particularly comfortable to ride out of the saddle either.

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