Originally Posted by
yellowblack
I disagree. I ride with a group of trialthetes every Sunday. They ride in a tight fast paceline together. They don't wreck and I have been witness to this many times. I have seen with my own eyes time and time again that it is the riders skill, not the bike that causes wrecks.
Your statement echos the thoughts and feelings of the cycling purest around here. The facts are no triathlete on a tri bike has ever been the cause of a wreck at the cycling club.
that you've seen a half dozen cyclists foolhardy enough to ride a fast paceline on tri bikes is testimony to nothing but lack of common sense.
it's not cycling
purism but
cycling pragmatism, yellowblack. conventional wisdom on the applications and limits of tri bikes versus road bikes is well known in the cycling community.