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Old November 18th 03, 07:40 AM
dukey81
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Hey crew, am looking going at purchasing a new tri bike i am moving up
into olympic distance and half ironman races and hopefully ironman races
(eventually) but the majority of my races are of the sprint distance.
What set up would you recommend for me the normal STI or the shifters at
the end of the tri bars (can't remember what their called.

Would really appreciate opinions. Cheers.



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Old November 18th 03, 10:33 AM
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"dukey81" wrote in message
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Hey crew, am looking going at purchasing a new tri bike i am moving up
into olympic distance and half ironman races and hopefully ironman races
(eventually) but the majority of my races are of the sprint distance.
What set up would you recommend for me the normal STI or the shifters at
the end of the tri bars (can't remember what their called.


"Barcons" are the little levers that go on the end of drop bars or
aero bars.

Will you be training on this bike? Solo or bunch rides?
If you are riding in traffic, STI is more practical and
safer. If you are serious, your bike could be fitted with
the barcons on the end of your aero bars. Usually though,
I think you would have normal STI levers on the drop bars
and barcons on the aero bars, i.e. both systems could be
used for gear changes. It is easy then to remove the aero
bars when doing 'normal' road training.

Check out:
http://www.trifuel.com/triathlon/bike/000347.php
http://www.transitiontimes.com/bb/vi...m=18&topic=322
http://vn1.velonews.com/tech/report/...es/3945.1.html (see last post)

You might also want to look at the rec.sport.triathlon ng.

hth
hippy


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Old November 19th 03, 01:18 PM
Fred Nieman
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hippy wrote:

"dukey81" wrote in message
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"Barcons" are the little levers that go on the end of drop bars or
aero bars.

Indeed. Fine things they are, too.

"Barcons" is also a nice example of an almost-English term ("bar-end
controllers", instead of "bar-end gear levers" or somesuch) that got
picked up and used in Japanese (maybe "bā-kon"* or "Bāru-kon"*, I'm not
sure which, I stoopidly, in retrospect, threw out the packaging of my
"bar-cons") and has **come back into English**.

Cf: "cos-play" (100% definitely), "air-con" (probably) , game-boy
(maybe), etc.

And, erm, this helps you... umm, maybe not at all... but it's
interesting. Well, to me, at least.

xxx

p
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Old November 19th 03, 11:44 PM
Alan Walker
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Fred Nieman wrote in message ...
hippy wrote:

"dukey81" wrote in message
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"Barcons" are the little levers that go on the end of drop bars or
aero bars.

Indeed. Fine things they are, too.

"Barcons" is also a nice example of an almost-English term ("bar-end
controllers", instead of "bar-end gear levers" or somesuch) that got
picked up and used in Japanese (maybe "bā-kon"* or "Bāru-kon"*, I'm not
sure which, I stoopidly, in retrospect, threw out the packaging of my
"bar-cons") and has **come back into English**.

Cf: "cos-play" (100% definitely), "air-con" (probably) , game-boy
(maybe), etc.

And, erm, this helps you... umm, maybe not at all... but it's
interesting. Well, to me, at least.



And to me

One of my favourites is the French "vetetiste". Sorry, can't do the
acute accents over the first two "e"s.

The French for mountain bike is "velo tout terrain", more or less "all
terrain bicyle", usually abbreviated to VTT and pronounced "vay tay
tay". Hence vetetiste = mountain bike rider. Generally, French is
more prolix than English, but I enjoy the brevity of this word.

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