TT Bike to a Road.

[coco69]

I am considering getting a tt bike and changing to road, i.e. bars/shifter.....anyone else done this.

 

[coco69]

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[smokeysmoo]

The one question that springs straight to my mind is................

WHY?

 

[jim55]

yeah ,just get a road bike

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

I bet its because the TT specific frames just look so much cooler, extreme, more mental (delete as appropriate)

Specialized R&D man Chris D'Lusio was running a TT bike called the transition as far back as 2009 it was this bike which took specialized in the direction which eventually resulted in the bike known as the Venge. If you look at both frames you can see the family likeness even now.

Specialized continue to test TT bikes with road bars to this day, here is the current ShiV ridden by the creative director Robert Egger

At no point has Specialized released a TT bike with drops as a bike such as this would be exceptionally compromised. I have a Venge and am well aware of the compromises made to make that particular bike so damn fast. I really would not want anything harder to live with.

 

[Rob3rt]

Pointless exercise unless you want the least responsive road bike you can find!

A TT bike is not just a road bike with aero tube shapes, the whole geometry is designed around putting the rider in an aero tuck position (and allowing them to spend as much time in this position as possible) whilst providing stable handling with the forward shifted weight placed over the front end.

It is a rare case that a TT bike will make an equally good standard road bike. The headtube angle is usually too slack and the seat tube too steep.

While TT bikes are designed to be able to be handled on technical courses, they much prefer to go in a straight line, unlike a road race frame which will be much more responsive in comparison. Also most of them are heavier than their road bike counterparts because in a TT (unless it is unusually hilly) weight is only a secondary concern, aero being the major concern, as I said this does not just mean the profiling of the tubes, it means putting the rider into an aero position, a position which demands changes to the geometry counter to the characteristics desirable in a road race frame.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Get yourself a Venge

 

[Rob3rt]

Or a BMC TMR01

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Or a BMC TMR01

Nahh a Venge, is the only option, don't you know all the cool kids have one Lol

 

[coco69]

Just for a bit of fun on those 10 miles scutches

 

[smokeysmoo]

anyone else done this.

that'll be a no then

 

[Rob3rt]

Just for a bit of fun on those 10 miles scutches

 

[cyberknight]

Pointless exercise unless you want the least responsive road bike you can find!

A TT bike is not just a road bike with aero tube shapes, the whole geometry is designed around putting the rider in an aero tuck position (and allowing them to spend as much time in this position as possible) whilst providing stable handling with the forward shifted weight placed over the front end.

It is a rare case that a TT bike will make an equally good standard road bike. The headtube angle is usually too slack and the seat tube too steep.

While TT bikes are designed to be able to be handled on technical courses, they much prefer to go in a straight line, unlike a road race frame which will be much more responsive in comparison. Also most of them are heavier than their road bike counterparts because in a TT (unless it is unusually hilly) weight is only a secondary concern, aero being the major concern, as I said this does not just mean the profiling of the tubes, it means putting the rider into an aero position, a position which demands changes to the geometry counter to the characteristics desirable in a road race frame.

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