Originally Posted by
k_kibbler
But watch one Youtube video and proclaim that you've invented something better than decades of combined medical (physiology), professional (pro-team investments), and scientific (wind tunnel testing) experience have been able to achieve, that arrogance doesn't sit well with people who know better. Please also learn to spell peloton correctly.
Thanks for the spelling tip. As I have pointed out the Campag4life the pro-teams invest in bikes for UCI races and I respect their work.
But, I am not in a UCI race neither in a peloton road race, so I don't have the drafting provided by a peloton, nor do I have the comfort of being on a time trial race but rather I have to weave in the road to avoid traffic. I am riding shorter rides, occasionally doing sprints (Strava segments). These ride characteristics mean that a bike designed for a UCI race would be very unlikely to be appropriate for me. It is not that I am "better" than the decades of professional investment, but that the professionals are making bikes for rides other than my own.
What is surprising is that so many people, who don't belong to clubs or ride in a peloton, are purchasing the UCI associated bicycle styles and positions despite the fact they are not designed for their ride. But then I like to think I have explained the misinformation, 'delusion', and also identification that motivates their choice. I respect that too. If you want
to feel like a TDF rider even though you may be too fat to bend over (as I was), then the Grand Fondo may be the right choice for you. To be honest, I think I started that way myself. I watched Lance attempt his comeback and then went out on my Grand Fondo feeling like I was riding along side him. And that worked too for a while.
But if you don't care whether your position looks "ridiculous", but want to go fast and be fit, in traffic, then a UCI peloton or TT position is almost bound to be incorrect because
there are no UCI races for solitary riders in traffic.
Hell some people talk about tailoring bike fit to the millimetre to suit the morphology of the rider etc, but then go and forget
the absence of the peloton! Or the presence of traffic! 
Originally Posted by
shelbyfv
I've only skimmed this thread so maybe I missed any mention of significant distance. Timtak, what are your times for 100miles or 200K, etc? Are you appreciably faster than with a more "normal" position?
I ride at most about 55km. Almost all my rides are to and from a house 24k from my work, without breaks as it happens, but I sometimes to further afield at the weekends e.g.
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