Road bikes used in ITU races?

Tri bikes not allowed in ITU draft-legal racing.  You were seeing road bikes.

Edited by Left Brain 2015-01-09 2:18 PM

Aerobars or tri-bikes are not allowed in ITU. They do have shorter bars that they can rest their arms on but they generally don't use them when in the peleton.

Edited by jennifer_runs 2015-01-09 2:35 PM

Yeah, piece of cake.

 

 

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Maybe easier on the legs, heart, and lungs but a little tougher on the ribs and collar bones, I guess it's all relative.

Thanks for the explanation.

Not those either.

Shane

I wouldn't say "all they do is draft", but there certainly is lots of drafting, teams even use domestiques to pull the runners through. It's a different type of racing - I wouldn't say its any easier, in many ways its harder. Just a different skill set, with an emphasis on bike handling skills and the ability to make surges to attack or catch any breakaways.

Riding in a peleton is by no means "easier" unless you are fitter than the rest of the peleton :p

Locally I was great at the weekly time trials, but would get spat out the back of every crit race, it was my goal for one summer to stay til the end of the race in the main pack for the first time.

They're drafting sure, which allows them to go faster, but they are still pushing hard, and there tends to be more up and down, trying to stop breakaways, closing gaps, if you're at the back of it, you tend to have to keep goin hard to keep up as the group comes together, separates a little, making you possibly burn your matches sooner, and not having them for the run.

It was a great experience learning to ride with these guys!