Forbidden Bikes

I would look closely at a time trial bike. The set up of the bike if I recall correctly is not the same as a tri specific bike. I could be wrong, but it wouldn't hurt you to research it. Soft rides are legal and I think that there were several at Kona.

Still Tri'n
Michael

Unless you race the ITU circuit tehy are all pretty much OK. As far as I know you can't use softride and similar in ITU. But they may have changed the rules since I last checked.

Enrico in CO

Here is the USA Triathlon guidelines for bikes. Any bike that is legal in a USA cycling time trial is legal in a triathlon. http://www.usatriathlon.org/Rules_Officials/rules.htm#5.11
-sam
p.s. it's under article 5.11

I probably didn't make myself clear on my response. I didn't mean that a TT bike might be considered illegal. The bike itself is usually set up a for road riders with its geometry which favors the muscles they have built from riding. A tri-specific bike is set up with a geometry that helps a triathlete by letting them use the muscles built up from running.

After I read my post I didn't feel that I was really clear on that and didn't want to mislead anyone.

Still Tri'n
Michael