Originally Posted by
markwebb
Why the aero TT bikes? It's a road course. It's not a TT course. It's hilly. There are curves. You're usually riding 70%+ of the course in traffic with cars and other riders.
The whole point of tri-specific bikes is that they can be set up to use different muscles (run with calves and bike with thighs?) on the bike to try and keep your running performance at it's best.
I'm not sure why more people don't do this (...I do...not as aero. but it's practically negligible at that point) but I have a TT bike with road drops and aerobar clip-ons and it can MOVE. It looks a little strange next to bikes with bullhorn style bars (or just regular integrated aerobars) but it should help a lot on hilly courses next year. I just think it's nice to have a road-racing and tri-racing bike all rolled into one. If I need to I can take off the aerobars in 2 minutes.