Subject: RE: Road vs Tri geometry- Cycling Guru's Input please??Daremo - 2009-08-25 6:49 AM
Slightly different but only because of the bar positions that you have available - this is why some complain that it is harder to climb on their tri bikes - there are just less options for where you can put your hands. Otherwise you are correct in your assumption that in general standing will be similar with the two different bikes.
+2. I found that I was so dialed into my road bike while climbing that, even though the differences were just slight (handlebars, weight, twitchy steering ), I still felt pretty terrible climbing on my tri bike at first. But now after about a month of riding my tri bike exclusively on hilly routes, it feels perfectly fine while climbing.
It also feels much better when descending but still not close to my road bike. My first impression remains which is that the differences between tri/road are far more important in descending than climbing. Edited by breckview 2009-08-25 10:04 AM
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