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Old 06-01-15 | 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by tetonrider
You must not know that many road cyclists. "that they can get" is pretty ambiguous.
See the video of the exiting Cat 3s and milling at the start of a local SoCal good amateur race. The Cat 3s are finishing and leaving, those staging and starting are 30ish Cat 1s, same number of Cat 2s and small handful of pros. I only know 30% of these riders and about 10% know me.

Can get = wheel profile, wheel width, aero bars, aero frames, aero helmets and even position.
Observation: I saw higher profile wheels in the Cat 3s than in the P12 race.

The following items have more aero selections available, generally at a higher weight, but at costs similar to what these riders chose to use. This was in a 28.4mph average speed race where AERO would certainly matter.

I saw no TT helmets.
I saw a very few what appeared to be over 70mm profile wheels.
I did not see any rear discs.
There were no tri-spokes
Tires were a mix of 23 and 25mm, I saw no 19mms
Estimate 80% had round handle bars.
The majority of bikes were round tubes.
There were few skin suits, and one speed suit (my kid)
There were no booties.


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