[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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[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.

[Vector]

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

[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.

[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.

[Vector]

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

[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.

[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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