Stock Road bike that's fitted with aero bars and forward seat post

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2005-01-21 3:36 PM

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Subject: Stock Road bike that's fitted with aero bars and forward seat post
My question/statement to the triathlete community: Is there a bike manufacturer that makes, as a stock bike, a road bike but that's fitted with aero bars and a forward seat post? If I'm not alone, and I don't think I am, there are many of us triathletes who want a road bike, but at the same time, also desire some of the advantages of a triathlon bike. After all, most people with limited funds, like myself, are forced to buy a road bike as their one and only bike, instead of getting a triathlon bike. Moreover, I see many posts from people interested in getting aero bars and the like. Anyone have any thoughts/comments about bike manufacturers making a stock road bike fitted for triathlon racing? Thanks.


2005-01-21 3:42 PM
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Subject: RE: Stock Road bike that's fitted with aero bars and forward seat post
I recently read a post somewhere about a road bike with interchangeable geometry for the seat post angle etc. Now it's going to drive me crazy to try and find it.
2005-01-21 3:49 PM
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Subject: RE: Stock Road bike that's fitted with aero bars and forward seat post
Cervelo  soloist
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Kestrel Talon

Either one can be set up as a road or tri-ish bike.

There may be more, but these two spring immediately to mind

2005-01-21 3:50 PM
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Subject: RE: Stock Road bike that's fitted with aero bars and forward seat post

Steven, you might be thinking of the Cervelo Soloist, which is a road bike equipped (as is much of Cervelo's line) with a reversible seatpost to alter the geometry fom road to triathlon.

Doesn't come stock with aerobars, but it's <$100 DIY addition.

2005-01-21 7:49 PM
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Subject: RE: Stock Road bike that's fitted with aero bars and forward seat post
I ride a Kestel Talon. I love it!! Tri bike in Summer, Road bike in Winter. I don't necessarily subscribe to all the talk that you must have a tri bike to go fast. Chris McCormack races ironman on the Talon SL, and has a sub 8hr at the Roth Challenge in Germany.

http://www.kestrel-usa.com/index.php

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2005-01-22 7:32 AM
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Subject: RE: Stock Road bike that's fitted with aero bars and forward seat post

I'm pretty sure Giant made a TT-style bike fitted with bullhorns and aerobars a few years ago, one of the TCR compact geometry road bikes, and I believe it also had an aero seatpost that you could flip around for foreward-seating. It may have been the Team ONCE bike, pretty high-end.
I have the 2005 catologue here, but it has no such animal listed.

2005-01-24 10:54 PM
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Subject: RE: Stock Road bike that's fitted with aero bars and forward seat post
That would be the TCR Aero, I have one, and i had to fit a thompson setback seat post (turned around) to get a nice steep angle. It still handles well.
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