Which one is fastest? UCI Time trial bike or non-UCI triathlon bike?

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TonyM
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by TonyM

What do you think for let’s say a fully flat course or a flat course with just a few short hills?

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Just see that « Tour » 09/2017 made a test. Does anyone have the results?

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It's the same bike?

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clipsed wrote:It's the same bike?
No. Time trial with the UCI rules. Triathlon bikes don’t have to comply to the UCI rules.

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UCI legal according to Tour.
https://ibb.co/hTj1c6


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it depends on the bike and the position the rider can adopt on the. the question is meaningless as a bike is not fast unless there is a rider pedalling it.

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Here is a fast non-UCI bike. :D

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by CarlosFerreiro

Under the old UCI rules the aspect ratio of the fork was more limited, but with the revised ones, not so much.
Beyond that, the possible frame gains for non-UCI are more limited at low yaw anyhow.

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BMC TT (Mavic CXR) 190.5
BMC Tri (Mavic CXR) 196.8

BMC's TT frame is faster than the Tri version in this case (little bit faster again if you stick it on 808's)

Canyon Speedmax TT (808) 190.1
Canyon Speedmax Tri (808) 190.4

Again, TT version faster though so small that it could be statistically insignificant.

Shame a lot of the setups don't have directly compatible wheelsets, but you can still get some takeaways from it. P5 with 808s is clearly a monster setup. Surprised the P5X didn't do better, would like to see it on some 808s and redone. The Enve's are nice and deep, though 808s are deeper. I'm thinking it's disc brake drag.

Anyway, not as expected, I was under the impression triathlon bikes were faster than TT bikes. That said, the tri bikes fully loaded with normal use food/kit etc will almost certainly be must faster than TT bikes with ad hoc straps and accessories. If you're doing tri, then tri bikes are definitely faster for you.

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UCI bike is faster.


Because it will be piloted by a pro cyclist.




The other will just be piloted by a tri-guy! ;)

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Shrike wrote:BMC TT (Mavic CXR) 190.5
BMC Tri (Mavic CXR) 196.8

BMC's TT frame is faster than the Tri version in this case (little bit faster again if you stick it on 808's)

Canyon Speedmax TT (808) 190.1
Canyon Speedmax Tri (808) 190.4

Again, TT version faster though so small that it could be statistically insignificant.

Shame a lot of the setups don't have directly compatible wheelsets, but you can still get some takeaways from it. P5 with 808s is clearly a monster setup. Surprised the P5X didn't do better, would like to see it on some 808s and redone. The Enve's are nice and deep, though 808s are deeper. I'm thinking it's disc brake drag.

Anyway, not as expected, I was under the impression triathlon bikes were faster than TT bikes. That said, the tri bikes fully loaded with normal use food/kit etc will almost certainly be must faster than TT bikes with ad hoc straps and accessories. If you're doing tri, then tri bikes are definitely faster for you.
They used all that stuff in the test. Canyon which has perhaps most integrated food/water supply didn’t have advantage with those...
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Vermu wrote:
Sat Dec 23, 2017 8:38 am
UCI legal according to Tour.
https://ibb.co/hTj1c6
Or not. Looks like the fastest bike was the P5 Three (uci legal fork/brake) but they didn’t test the P5 Six (non UCI fork / brake shroud). I would be freakin’ amazed if the Six wasn’t faster than the Three, because otherwise why would Cervelo bother making it?

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Tbh I do not understand most triathlon specific iterations. As felt is the only one faster than the tt-version. Yet still all are made.
Although this test was far from uniform as some had different wheels than other.



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by Shrike

Vermu wrote:
Sat Dec 23, 2017 4:14 pm
Tbh I do not understand most triathlon specific iterations. As felt is the only one faster than the tt-version. Yet still all are made.
Although this test was far from uniform as some had different wheels than other.



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Our test interpretation has a conceit to it I think. Current-gen tri bikes aren't designed to be faster than an unloaded TT bike. They're designed to be faster than this:

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If you start to strap on all your crap to a standard TT frame, like bottles, food etc, then that causes a lot of drag. The tri bike then starts to make a lot of sense and is actually quite impressive considering how close they are to a clean TT bike.

In short, TT bikes are faster for TT's, tri bikes are faster for tri :o

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Vermu wrote:
Sat Dec 23, 2017 4:14 pm
Tbh I do not understand most triathlon specific iterations. As felt is the only one faster than the tt-version. Yet still all are made.
Although this test was far from uniform as some had different wheels than other.
Because if you need to carry a whole bunch of other stuff on the frame to get through the long distance event, the integrated storgae solutions will be faster than your UCI TT bike with lots of storage boxes strapped onto it.

The P5X wasn't designed to be faster than a bare P5 at your local 10 or 25 mile TT. It was designed to faster than a fully loaded P5 on the 112 mile Kona course.

(PMSL at that flapjack top tube. Dude's probably got the best tasting bike there, if not the fastest :lol: :lol: :lol: )

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