View Single Post
Old 12-20-13, 12:59 PM
  #22  
mpath
Recusant Iconoclast
 
mpath's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Tsawwassen, BC
Posts: 2,560

Bikes: Look 695, Wilier Izoard

Mentioned: 3 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 247 Post(s)
Liked 58 Times in 29 Posts
Originally Posted by StanSeven
I was joking. I occasionally train with a group of triathletes and many do ride aerobars, mostly to get the miles in that position. There have been two accidents in the entire time I've known them/ridden with them (maybe eight years) and neither had anything to do with aerobars
Bit of an oxymoron here: drafting in a paceline on a TT bike. As most triathlons disallow drafting, training in a paceline on a TT bike kind of defeats the purpose of it. The purpose of an "aero" TT bike is to be faster solo than a comparable rider on a roadbike.
mpath is offline