Originally Posted by
livedarklions
I think "a bit" is probably the perfect word to use for the speed increase. I've seen a fair number of people be disappointed when they have unrealistic expectations of how much faster they'll be on the more aero bike.
Great post, btw.
One of the kids that I ride with finished his second year this past July and bought a road bike off of an older rider who aged out of the program. All season this kid would talk about how much faster he would be on a road bike and how much his FX1 hybrid was holding him back. It was almost an ongoing joke that if he was with a faster group and couldnt keep up, he was going to complain about how much slower he was due to the hybrid. I would temper his expectations each time I heard him talking. He will be faster next season, Im sure, but it will be a mix of him being stronger and a healthy heap of placebo.