I have a Kuota road bike; not a tri bike. I love it! Compared to my Trek 5200, it rides like a dream. I always get asked if I do tris because of this bike, because not many shops in the US sell their regular road bikes. You should check them out.
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I have a Kuota road bike; not a tri bike. I love it! Compared to my Trek 5200, it rides like a dream. I always get asked if I do tris because of this bike, because not many shops in the US sell their regular road bikes. You should check them out.
Thanks Ladies,
Keep 'em coming. I'm checking it out as I can.
anakiwa - I had a fitting done on the Jolly Green Giant by Eric Moen a PT that specializes in this sort of thing. He got me set up really nicely on Jolly so I'll likely try to duplicate the geometry. I may go for a "cheaper" full on tri bike for racing, nurse Jolly along and buy a really nice road bike a little later. Jolly won't convert to a "hill" bike very well, I don't think. She's a little heavy.
As for material, I haven't decided. That's part of the reason for the post. It's been a long time since I've been in market and things have changed a lot. I haven't kept up with all the changes. Jolly is an aluminum alloy (Specialized M4 material) with a carbon fork.
I have a Kuota Kharma and love it! Like, Robyn, mine is not tri specific. They have some great tri bikes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robyn Maislin
Kerry
Wahine,
I bought a Guru Carbonia Tri last year and love it. They will do custom geometry if you want for same price as a factory frame. Mine was about $4K with all Ultegra components. It fits great and is so much lighter than my aluminum frame road bike.
I am really happy with Guru and suggest you check them too. Good tri geometry; i got 650 wheels and those have been a good fit.
best luck searching,
Laura
How is the quest going for a new bike?
When I had my bike fit the fellow gave me this article- thought you may find it interesting- it is long but a good read- unfortunately for me- it was a little late as I had already bought my bike and so we spent time "retro fitting" rather than finding a bike that fit my geometry - we tried to fit the me to the bike by making a few changes.
ah well next time- I will do it the other way around:)
oops could seem to get the attachment thingy to work- I emailed it to you instead:)
Got the e-mail thanks. I haven't had a chance to read it.
I took a bike fit course from this guy:
http://www.bikept.com/
I may e-mail him for advice as well. His course is totally worth it BTW, if you're interested.
That makes sense. I currently have a road bike and a tri bike. If I had it to do over again I might have started with the dream road bike- put clip on aerobars on it- and saved the money from the second bike for something else. (While I've found I really like the aero position for racing- I much prefer training on a road bike- so while I love the tri-bike, I'm not sure that it gets enough mileage to justify its existence.) But then again- I only do a few races each summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wahine
As far as materials go- that's where it makes sense to do some test-riding- and I think you have to do a long ride. Personally, I'm not as big a fan of carbon- it feels great at first, but after a while I find it too dampened. (I've never ridden aluminum on the road- most of my riding has been on either steel or carbon.)