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Aero bars on a road bike?? Would you?

  • 17-09-2009 12:59pm
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    Just been discussing aero bars with a guy on a different thread. He wanted to put them on his road bike for "commuting"??

    What does everyone else think? Personally i don't see the point of aero bars on a road bike unless you also have;

    1. A TT bike
    2. Aero Helmet
    3. Skinsuit
    4. Closed Roads with Marshals at every Junction!

    Any aerodynamic advantage with aerobars is minimal without the above items in place. As for using them for cummuting, I fail to see any advantage. Or am i missing something? Are aero bars much more comfortable then standard bars? I doubt they are, as a road bike geometry is all wrong. Commuting requires quick reactions (accelerating, braking etc.) which is not possible while your in a "tucked/aero" position.

    C'mon educate me! :D


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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Chips Lovell
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    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Personally i don't see the point of aero bars on a road bike unless you also have;

    1. A TT bike
    2. Aero Helmet
    3. Skinsuit
    4. Closed Roads with Marshals at every Junction!

    Any aerodynamic advantage with aerobars is minimal without the above items in place.

    Actually, aerobars will make a bigger difference to speed than any of the above, except for 4.
    07Lapierre wrote: »
    As for using them for cummuting, I fail to see any advantage.

    If you've long straight stretches where you can get down into the aerobars for long periods, then yes it might make a difference to commuting time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 tunney
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    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Just been discussing aero bars with a guy on a different thread. He wanted to put them on his road bike for "commuting"??

    What does everyone else think? Personally i don't see the point of aero bars on a road bike unless you also have;

    1. A TT bike
    2. Aero Helmet
    3. Skinsuit
    4. Closed Roads with Marshals at every Junction!

    Any aerodynamic advantage with aerobars is minimal without the above items in place. As for using them for cummuting, I fail to see any advantage. Or am i missing something? Are aero bars much more comfortable then standard bars? I doubt they are, as a road bike geometry is all wrong. Commuting requires quick reactions (accelerating, braking etc.) which is not possible while your in a "tucked/aero" position.

    C'mon educate me! :D

    Are you missing something? Yes - the facts :)

    aerodrynamic advantage is huge from just putting the bars on and changing your position to use them.

    (using them for commuting is an excellent idea if you are trying to get a darwin award)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,571 daymobrew
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    el tonto wrote: »
    If you've long straight stretches where you can get down into the aerobars for long periods, then yes it might make a difference to commuting time.
    I had a pair on my commuter (a FS MTB with slicks). In a headwind heading up Whitworth Road or along the off-road cycle track on Navan Road (Ashtown to Auburn Ave) it was fun.

    I didn't use them often because, as OP said, commuting requires quicker reactions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 blorg
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    They make a big difference (as Tonto says bigger than any other thing you can do to a bike) although obviously you would not want to use them in heavy traffic... if you had a long commute through with clear sections it could make a lot of sense, the more you use them the more you get used to them. Basically your reaction time to the brakes is diminished as is your ability to make emergency manoeuvres involving swerving.

    They are very comfortable, I have done upwards of 150km on them solo and averaged 32km/h without really making much of an effort... would not have managed that with my normal bars.

    I have them on one bike I commute on BTW, but only use them where appropriate...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 07Lapierre
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    tunney wrote: »
    Are you missing something? Yes - the facts :)

    aerodrynamic advantage is huge from just putting the bars on and changing your position to use them.

    (using them for commuting is an excellent idea if you are trying to get a darwin award)

    I take you point..An aerodynamic position is a huge advantage, but what i'm saying is..do aero bars bolted onto a "standard road bike" give you a HUGE aerodynamic advantage? Also, considering we're talking about commuting here..is that advantage not outweighed by the disadvantages of reduced reaction times? Unless your commute includes long streches of straight road with no traffic lights, I wold say no.
    Example: If you cycle from Balbriggan to Blakes Cross north of Swords, (a long straight road for the southsiders!), fair enough, i can see the advantage of the aero bars. BUT once you pass Blakes cross heading towards the city centre, there's traffic lights, Roundabouts, Pedestrian crossings, heavy traffic etc. etc. Aerobars are no advantage in this situation.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,957 Euro_Kraut
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    Mmm... Aero bars..


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Chips Lovell
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    07Lapierre wrote: »
    but what i'm saying is..do aero bars bolted onto a "standard road bike" give you a HUGE aerodynamic advantage?

    Yes. A bigger advantage than say adding a TT helmet or moving to a TT bike.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 07Lapierre
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    Euro_Kraut wrote: »
    Mmm... Aero bars..

    Here you go! Enjoy :D
    http://www.britshoppe.com/nesaermilcho.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 blorg
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    07Lapierre wrote: »
    do aero bars bolted onto a "standard road bike" give you a HUGE aerodynamic advantage?
    As Tonto says, from not only the studies but my personal experience of using them, yes, they do. More than anything else you can do with the bike.
    Also, considering we're talking about commuting here..is that advantage not outweighed by the disadvantages of reduced reaction times? Unless your commute includes long streches of straight road with no traffic lights, I wold say no. ... traffic lights, Roundabouts, Pedestrian crossings, heavy traffic etc. etc. Aerobars are no advantage in this situation.
    Which is why with aerobars on a standard road bike you have the best of both worlds, you can use them on the straight bit and DON'T HAVE TO USE THEM on the bit with pedestrian crossings, heavy traffic, etc. (You can go around roundabouts on them fine if there is no traffic you might need to brake for BTW.)

    Don't knock it until you try them, I had read the studies but only got mine in the last month or so (from daymobrew), I was astounded not only by the difference they make but also how comfortable the position was.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 tunney
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    And if anyone wants to try this and knock time off their commute I have a set of aerobars for sale, will fit non-oversized bars.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 07Lapierre
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    Ah feck it lads! I was really hoping you lot would convince me that i really need one of these;

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Felt_B2_PRO_2009/5360038975/

    When all i really need is a pair of these! geez

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Profile_Century_Aero_ZB_Aero_Bars/4000000916/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 tunney
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    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Ah feck it lads! I was really hoping you lot would convince me that i really need one of these;

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Felt_B2_PRO_2009/5360038975/

    When all i really need is a pair of these! geez

    http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Profile_Century_Aero_ZB_Aero_Bars/4000000916/

    I wouldn't buy a felt, alot of build quality and design problems

    They are the bars I am selling, yours for 30e


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 07Lapierre
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    "Don't knock it until you try them"..that sums it up really. My own commute includes a few long sections, think I'll give it a go so. Thanks everyone.."You learn something every day!" as they say.;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 blorg
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    Those bars that tunney is selling are the same as the ones I bought from daymobrew- I would buy tunney's ones too for my touring bike only I need oversize. Very decent bars I found.

    EDIT: When you get them, remember it takes a bit of practice to get used to them, the handling is very different. Don't stand up out of the saddle while on them!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 07Lapierre
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    tunney wrote: »
    I wouldn't buy a felt, alot of build quality and design problems

    They are the bars I am selling, yours for 30e

    Thanks for the offer tunney, but I'll pass...Why you selling them anyway? Everyone here says there almost a must when commuting? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 tunney
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    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Thanks for the offer tunney, but I'll pass...Why you selling them anyway? Everyone here says there almost a must when commuting? :D

    I have a vision cockpit on my TT bike, have a hed aerobar cockput setup lying in the shed, have a set of oval bars for clipping on to road bike and am happy cycling in the "roadie aero position"

    I'm under orders to clear out all the stuff I don't need so am selling the extra stuff I don't use. (Turbos, wheels, bikes, bars, parts, could take some time)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,104 alfalad
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    tunney wrote: »
    I have a vision cockpit on my TT bike, have a hed aerobar cockput setup lying in the shed, have a set of oval bars for clipping on to road bike and am happy cycling in the "roadie aero position"

    I'm under orders to clear out all the stuff I don't need so am selling the extra stuff I don't use. (Turbos, wheels, bikes, bars, parts, could take some time)

    Better keep an eye on adverts so!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 07Lapierre
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    tunney wrote: »
    I have a vision cockpit on my TT bike, have a hed aerobar cockput setup lying in the shed, have a set of oval bars for clipping on to road bike and am happy cycling in the "roadie aero position"

    I'm under orders to clear out all the stuff I don't need so am selling the extra stuff I don't use. (Turbos, wheels, bikes, bars, parts, could take some time)

    Jesus!!..Just pack in the day job and Open a Bike shop!:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,314 Nietzschean
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    tunney wrote: »
    I wouldn't buy a felt, alot of build quality and design problems

    They are the bars I am selling, yours for 30e

    i'll take those bars if you haven't shifted them...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,222 Lumen
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    What is wrong with you people?

    Time trial bars are for time trials, and for training for time trials. Not for commuting. It's just wrong, wrong, wrong.

    Wrong.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 tunney
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    Lumen wrote: »
    What is wrong with you people?

    Time trial bars are for time trials, and for training for time trials. Not for commuting. It's just wrong, wrong, wrong.

    Wrong.

    ssshhhhhh I've nearly sold my bars.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,222 Lumen
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    tunney wrote: »
    ssshhhhhh I've nearly sold my bars.

    Of course everyone needs TT bars, for TT training. Which might be done on the commute, for time management reasons.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 blorg
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    Lumen wrote: »
    What is wrong with you people?

    Time trial bars are for time trials, and for training for time trials. Not for commuting. It's just wrong, wrong, wrong.

    Wrong.
    I got comfortable with the aero bars from using them... if you leave them on the bike you will use them more, makes a lot of sense really. I don't "train", just go for cycles. (I plan to "train" for next year's racing mind.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,222 Lumen
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    blorg wrote: »
    I got comfortable with the aero bars from using them... if you leave them on the bike you will use them more, makes a lot of sense really. I don't "train", just go for cycles. (I plan to "train" for next year's racing mind.)

    Blah, blah, blah, can't hear you.

    WRONG.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,314 Nietzschean
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    its all in the name of commuter racing?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 blorg
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    its all in the name of commuter racing?
    You can't use them in a commuter race, it's cheating. Commuter races are run according to the rules for UCI mass start races.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,314 Nietzschean
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    alas my bar's are oversized it seems, so can't take tunney's bars.... I'll have to continue racing legally ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 Khannie
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    So it was me that raised the question initially (not the OP, but the post that drove the OP to start this thread). I'm a total bike noob, but I had used aerobars on a mates bike years ago, totally forgot that I had ever used them and then on my commute when I was all hunched over and bouncing on my elbows remembered how comfortable they had been. I think for long stretches they might be worth a bash. I pass through only 1 set of lights on my first 15K or so. Certainly for 30 euro it's not the greatest gamble ever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,222 Lumen
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    Khannie wrote: »
    then on my commute when I was all hunched over and bouncing on my elbows remembered how comfortable they had been. I think for long stretches they might be worth a bash.

    Bouncing on your elbows? Just out of curiosity, what sort of bike do you have?

    Please tell me it's a full suspension mountain bike.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 07Lapierre
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    Lumen wrote: »
    What is wrong with you people?

    Time trial bars are for time trials, and for training for time trials. Not for commuting. It's just wrong, wrong, wrong.

    Wrong.

    +1 ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 cdaly_
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    Hi all,

    New poster here.

    I've been commuting on a Giant FCR3 (hybrid) for the last year. In the last 4 months I've had a set of aerobars on the bike and I love them. On a given day, along the clontarf coast cycle path, using the aerobars makes a difference of about 2 sprockets in choice of gears compared with riding on the standard bars.

    On the advice of a colleague, I fitted a set of Tektro cross brake levers ( http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Tektro_RL720_Series_Lever_Set/5360027557/ ) so I have brakes at my fingertips when using the bars. I use the aerobars on all of the off road sections as well as the run along Griffith Avenue. They take some getting used to and there's definately a reduced level of control but a serious improvement in comfort. I was finding issues with my wrists (I code at work so carpal tunnel rsi could be an issue for me) and the aero bars take all the weight off them.

    That said, I did come off the bike at speed when using the aerobars. I had a front wheel blowout and ended up careering across the road and swan-diving into the pavement. Serious graze to my elbow which has taken about 2 months to heal. If I had been on the main bars, I suspect I might have managed to recover and stop safely (and I wouldn't have been travelling as fast). Of course, I completely forgot to use the brakes in the course of the 4 or 5 seconds (or 5 minutes depending on viewpoint...) before touchdown.

    I came off again on the same stretch of road (seriously bad surface) while on the aerobars a few weeks later. Again, I probably would have recovered if I'd been on the main bars instead. I don't ride that bit of road anymore.

    All in all, I love the aerobars even with my injuries. Then again, I cannot do 'moderate' when on the bike...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 07Lapierre
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    cdaly_ wrote: »
    Hi all,

    New poster here.

    I've been commuting on a Giant FCR3 (hybrid) for the last year. In the last 4 months I've had a set of aerobars on the bike and I love them. On a given day, along the clontarf coast cycle path, using the aerobars makes a difference of about 2 sprockets in choice of gears compared with riding on the standard bars.

    On the advice of a colleague, I fitted a set of Tektro cross brake levers ( http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/cycle/7/Tektro_RL720_Series_Lever_Set/5360027557/ ) so I have brakes at my fingertips when using the bars. I use the aerobars on all of the off road sections as well as the run along Griffith Avenue. They take some getting used to and there's definately a reduced level of control but a serious improvement in comfort. I was finding issues with my wrists (I code at work so carpal tunnel rsi could be an issue for me) and the aero bars take all the weight off them.

    That said, I did come off the bike at speed when using the aerobars. I had a front wheel blowout and ended up careering across the road and swan-diving into the pavement. Serious graze to my elbow which has taken about 2 months to heal. If I had been on the main bars, I suspect I might have managed to recover and stop safely (and I wouldn't have been travelling as fast). Of course, I completely forgot to use the brakes in the course of the 4 or 5 seconds (or 5 minutes depending on viewpoint...) before touchdown.

    I came off again on the same stretch of road (seriously bad surface) while on the aerobars a few weeks later. Again, I probably would have recovered if I'd been on the main bars instead. I don't ride that bit of road anymore.

    All in all, I love the aerobars even with my injuries. Then again, I cannot do 'moderate' when on the bike...


    I think anyone who cycles at speed along the Clontarf Cycle path is setting themselves up for a crash. Any time i've cycled along it, I've had to avoid, pedestrians, dogs, kids on bikes, joggers listening to ipods etc. etc. To cycle along there at speed with Aero-bars is reckless...At least you only injured yourself.


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    07Lapierre wrote: »
    I think anyone who cycles at speed along the Clontarf Cycle path is setting themselves up for a crash. Any time i've cycled along it, I've had to avoid, pedestrians, dogs, kids on bikes, joggers listening to ipods etc. etc. To cycle along there at speed with Aero-bars is reckless...At least you only injured yourself.

    judge mental much?

    there are parts of that path where you have good vis and a good cyclist would get on fine on aero bars/drops or whatever. Other parts have to be taken at pretty much a walking speed by anyone....
    You don't like aero bars, and don't use aero bars, so why would you be qualified to judge the safety of their use in places?

    I have cruised along parts of the cycle path at ~40km/hr at times(wind permitting/helping) perfectly safely....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 cdaly_
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    It's also worth noting that the cycle path is considerably less busy during commuting times. OTOH, on a summer evening it is overrun with walkers, kids, dogs etc...

    Wintertime it's very handy. only the hardy cyclists out there...


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    judge mental much?

    there are parts of that path where you have good vis and a good cyclist would get on fine on aero bars/drops or whatever. Other parts have to be taken at pretty much a walking speed by anyone....
    You don't like aero bars, and don't use aero bars, so why would you be qualified to judge the safety of their use in places?

    I have cruised along parts of the cycle path at ~40km/hr at times(wind permitting/helping) perfectly safely....

    Your right! I don't use Aero-bars when i'm commuting.. I have no problem with people using them when taking part in a time trail or triathlons. I think everyone has a responibility to use the roads/cycle paths responsibly. I don't dislike them, i just choose not to use them on my road bike when commuting.


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    there are parts of that path where you have good vis and a good cyclist would get on fine on aero bars/drops or whatever.

    Aero bars and drops are in no way comparable in terms of control.

    You can easily sprint out of the saddle on a crap surface in drops; try that using aerobars and you'll almost certainly crash.

    Aero bars fitted to a hybrid are a poor solution to a problem that doesn't exist on a proper road bike.


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    Lumen wrote: »
    Aero bars fitted to a hybrid are a poor solution to a problem that doesn't exist on a proper road bike.

    The only other solution to take weight off my wrists is to sit bolt upright and that just doesn't work in a headwind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 blorg
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    Aero bars are fine (even on a hybrid I imagine) if you use them when there is nothing you may have to react to in the immediate... This would include the Clontarf-Howth cycle path for much of it... you can switch between aero bar and brake in under a second you know, so you can alternate pretty handily. You can even keep one hand on the aero bar and one on the front brake...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,314 Nietzschean
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    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Your right! I don't use Aero-bars when i'm commuting.. I have no problem with people using them when taking part in a time trail or triathlons. I think everyone has a responibility to use the roads/cycle paths responsibly. I don't dislike them, i just choose not to use them on my road bike when commuting.

    When you say TT's and Triathalons your mixing up your dislike with any kind of safety reason then...since they are perfectly fine on a road bike if used sensibly. Have you done much cycling with them at all?


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    cdaly_ wrote: »
    The only other solution to take weight off my wrists is to sit bolt upright and that just doesn't work in a headwind.

    Sure, whatever works for you is good. :)

    I'm just saying you wouldn't have this problem on a properly fitted drop bar road bike, which combines a sufficiently aerodynamic position with more ergonomic hand positions and full control of the brakes and steering.


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    Lumen wrote: »
    Aero bars and drops are in no way comparable in terms of control.

    You can easily sprint out of the saddle on a crap surface in drops; try that using aerobars and you'll almost certainly crash.

    You have greater stability/turning control...same time i'd imagine to hit the breaks though....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 blorg
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    You have maximum control of a road bike in the drops (substantially better than on the hoods.) You have minimum control on the aerobars (substantially worse than on the hoods.)


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    For this random example i would be taking the drops to mean hand position at bottom of drops not near breaks..... but in drops max control turning/bouncyness of course...


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    When you say TT's and Triathalons your mixing up your dislike with any kind of safety reason then...since they are perfectly fine on a road bike if used sensibly. Have you done much cycling with them at all?

    I have used them yes, but I'd much prefer to have a TT/Triathlon bike then use bolt-on aero bars on a road bike. This discussion is about using aero bars while commuting. Using them during a TT/Triathlon event is fine IMO. When commuting, I think having control over the bike is more important. It really depends on the commuting route and the riders experience. Personally, I'm happy to use my road bike for commuting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 Raam
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    07Lapierre wrote: »
    I think anyone who cycles at speed along the Clontarf Cycle path is setting themselves up for a crash. Any time i've cycled along it, I've had to avoid, pedestrians, dogs, kids on bikes, joggers listening to ipods etc. etc. To cycle along there at speed with Aero-bars is reckless...At least you only injured yourself.

    I hammer it down that thing twice a day :)
    It can be very busy in the evenings after commute time, at which time I am usually somewhere else.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 blorg
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    For this random example i would be taking the drops to mean hand position at bottom of drops not near breaks.....
    You have more control as well as being more aero (as you are more forward and down) when you can grip the brakes- that position at the very bottom of the drops at the ends is really only for a bit of variety and a change of hand position, it is not somewhere you should be spending a lot of time.


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    Got a set of these Profile Design Cobra T2 about 6 weeks or so ago, getting to like them. Have them on my road bike, definitely handy in a headwind. Worth at least 2mph and once you get used to them not that bad. Wouldn't use them in traffic though, although have gotten more confident as I use them and more comfortable on busier roads. Having grown up in west Cork where every wind seemed to have been against me I've always wanted something to relieve the drag from the gale blowing in from the west! Would put them on a high nelly if i thought they'd help so go for it!


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    Raam wrote: »
    I hammer it down that thing twice a day :)
    It can be very busy in the evenings after commute time, at which time I am usually somewhere else.

    Using aerobars?


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    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Using aerobars?

    Nope as I don't have a set. I'll be happy to do so once I get em.
    Honestly, there is no one around in the morning so you can see any potential danger in good time.
    Home time, it can sometimes be busier, but usually quite empty compared to weekends or later in the evening.


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    Raam wrote: »
    Nope as I don't have a set. I'll be happy to do so once I get em.
    Honestly, there is no one around in the morning so you can see any potential danger in good time.
    Home time, it can sometimes be busier, but usually quite empty compared to weekends or later in the evening.

    Tunney has a pair for sale..off you go!:D


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