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Opinions Please ;-
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. -- -------------------------- Posted via cyclingforums.com http://www.cyclingforums.com |
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Opinions Please ;-
"dukey81" wrote in message
... 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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Liguistics Trivia Time (was: Opinions Please ;-)
hippy wrote:
"dukey81" wrote in message ... "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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Liguistics Trivia Time (was: Opinions Please ;-)
Fred Nieman wrote in message ...
hippy wrote: "dukey81" wrote in message ... "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. A |
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