Originally Posted by
orcanova
I was just wondering if that was known to be a slower TT bike. I actually pasted the Urdu pic because I could navigate to that pic easiest, since I know the website well (I ride an Orca). I could have pasted a Cervelo or any other one.
Right...and the point I was trying to make is that not all high end TT bikes are necessarily "equal". It very well may be that the round tubed bike you show above is actually not much slower, if any, than some of the slower TT frames out there, but that wouldn't be the case for the ones proven to be low drag in multiple tests from multiple sources.
There's quite a wide "spread" in the drag performance for the current crop of bikes sold as TT bikes. While some have been designed and tested using actual wind tunnel testing...others have merely been "styled" to "look fast"...which doesn't necessarily translate to actually being fast.
