Originally Posted by
Rick Imby
Your experience sounds interesting. Let me get this straight---some abbreviations I'm not sure about.
So you are saying your Road bike---700c carbon is about 2mph or 3kph faster?
Your Tribike has the forward extended hand position? Or is it standard Road bike bars?
Would one of your 406 bikes be significantly faster than the others?
Tri-bike is titanium and old, certainly over 10kg and not the <7kg bikes out there nowadays.
Its got aero-bars as its a Tri-bike, but either way on the aero bars or on the handlebars, its certainly faster.
Just looked at my Strava rides over this week, with the one on the Tri bike being the ones later in the week (so presumably more fatigued).
On the regular straight stretch that I ride on, I cruise (ie. easy breathing) at ave 35-37kph on the tri bike and 30-32kph on the mini velos (ie. Raleigh MV8 and Moulton TSR).
I would say that the Raleigh is a bit faster of my bikes.
Lighter (no fold), really stiff and basically a road bike geometry sized down.
I can imagine it being able to match any high end mini velo if I changed out the fork to a carbon one and got better 451 wheels like the Tyrell AM9. (but its my commute and I like to leave it cheaper in case of theft)