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03-11-03, 11:55 AM
Hello!
This is my first post on these boards, so I'll give a little background to help with my question. I'm a 6'4", 160lb, 17 year old high school student in northern maine, who is becoming rather interested in the sports of triathlon and road racing. I rode my first tri last year, but I think I'm leaning more toward the roadie route. I did the tri last year on dad's old bike, a 61cm Specialized Sirrus from the late '80's-ish, with the 105 downtube group. The bike is starting to rust a bit, but seems to be in pretty good shape overall. This summer I could keep a 20mph ave on the tri leg, and I've been doing much more work since on the Sirrus, which is currently on a wind trainer in my dorm room(I attend the MSSM, a public residential high school).
I've been thinking about getting a new bike for the summer, as I would like get into road racing, as well as into college. The Fuji Team has been jumping out at me, but I've been wondering, what will getting a new bike give me? What sort of speed increase would I be looking at? Should I instead try to get some nicer wheels for the Sirrus? I have, as you can perhaps imagine, a small problem with getting bikes in my size, but the Sirrus seems to fit fairly well, maybe a little small.
This is my first post on these boards, so I'll give a little background to help with my question. I'm a 6'4", 160lb, 17 year old high school student in northern maine, who is becoming rather interested in the sports of triathlon and road racing. I rode my first tri last year, but I think I'm leaning more toward the roadie route. I did the tri last year on dad's old bike, a 61cm Specialized Sirrus from the late '80's-ish, with the 105 downtube group. The bike is starting to rust a bit, but seems to be in pretty good shape overall. This summer I could keep a 20mph ave on the tri leg, and I've been doing much more work since on the Sirrus, which is currently on a wind trainer in my dorm room(I attend the MSSM, a public residential high school).
I've been thinking about getting a new bike for the summer, as I would like get into road racing, as well as into college. The Fuji Team has been jumping out at me, but I've been wondering, what will getting a new bike give me? What sort of speed increase would I be looking at? Should I instead try to get some nicer wheels for the Sirrus? I have, as you can perhaps imagine, a small problem with getting bikes in my size, but the Sirrus seems to fit fairly well, maybe a little small.