How To Adapt Your Road Bike To A Triathlon Bike | Ride Faster In Your Next Triathlon

Do you have a road bike, road bike with clip on aerobars or a triathlon bike?

best review I've seen thanks!

Just brought some and didnt even think about notnbeing able to put them on my road bike :( no idea if my handle bars are carbon! I know my bike frame is... its second hand Dolan bike so not got a clue on the model?! Any help

Fantastic explanation

Good Item

i wanna go to an iron man with my gravelbike

Any chance of clipping on those extensions on wide aero handlebars??

Awesome & Thanks :)

How fast is this bike?

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What kind of tools I need to get started making chances on my road bike ?

Your Tutorials are Loud and clear and easy to understand!!!
Thank you Gtn!!!😊🌄😇💖💯

Gcn en español debería hacer uno así me interesa pero no hablo Inglés

I have a Gt outpost with tri bars and it rides way better than just using flat bars 😂

Aero bars are quite expensive, is there any easy and cheaper way to get one.

WTH Lloydy!?!? Not what I'd expect, and he didn't even take a moment to call himself out either XD

Had to review this episode after viewing the lastest "Should Tribikes be Banned?" episode.

Hello, Great video! Thank you for the info. Taking the mods a bit further, has anyone ever installed Sram Red eTap Blip Shift Buttons on Profile Design aero bars? I’ve just installed new T1+ Carbon aero bars on my road bike and would like to add the Sram Red eTap Blip Shift Buttons if possible. Please advise. Thanks in advance.

You might address some more points. First left out is DI2. This will help attach bleepers to your clip-ons and change the gears without having to change your aero position.
Next important this is seat post with multiple offsets. I own a Merida Reacto specifically for the fact that I can flip my top seat post and from positive setback I now have a negative offset witch brings my position forward. I raise the saddle accordingly and voila, I have almost the same position as on a TT bike.

Loving these simple and effective tips!

Hey! I also ride a BMC bike

Lmao I invented the hose drinking kit that goes into your bottle and you suck in to drink, no hands or removing the bottle from its cage. The hose goes up to the helmet area into a mouth piece like mic port.

The seagulls appear to take exception with your claim about the bottles proven to be more aerodynamic behind the seat than on the seat tube.

And I have to agree with them: while the bottle itself may not be more aerodynamic on the seat-tube, I believe it serves as a fairing for the rear wheel and reduces the drag of the bottle-bike-wheel unit as a whole. But I'm not a science major, so if any of you fluid dynamics graduates have a link, I'd appreciate being corrected.

Why was the slow mo so satisfying? 🤷‍♂️

i love this bike design. also very informative, I just got my aero bars so now to look into the other stuff, thanks!

Ok, I've got to say this once and I'm not trying to 🐝 cheeky about it...but Heather's accent is what just got your channel another subscriber!-) I'm newish to biking (serious as opposed to cruising aroynd) and I love all the technical specs...it's just easier to listen to Heather describe it as opposed to a math geek with no speaking ability~ I live here in North Italy 🇮🇹 and will do my first Triathlon this May;-) Thanks again for the free content!-) 👌🖖✌️

Why do u always use a GCN bottle?

Slam the stem, add clip on bars, and use deep wheels and you will be quite aero with a racing geometry frame.

Yeah, Ima just ride my road bike and do tris with it.

what the hell is Dan Lloyd doing on GTN... in GTN kit... on a TT bike... in South Africa??

Does anyone know what BMC this is?

What is a good saddle to use on a road bike with mini clip-on tt bars?

Thanks for the video it was full of information

Thanks for the video it was full of information

Interesting that you suggest moving the saddle to tweak the reach when in a GCN bike fitting video they state that once the saddle is in the correction position relative to the pedals then the reach is adjusted on the stem side, not by moving the saddle.

Can anyone recommend a good set or brand of clip on aerobars to buy?

That helps keep my amount of bicycles to what I can store. Thanks

If you have a double bottle holder, you can use one of the bottles to squeeze gels into, along with enough water to make them drinkable. If you put lines on the bottle, you can work out approximately how much to drink to get one gel.

If you are moving your seat forward and up, you will also need to tilt your saddle nose down a bit.

Top-tube bags can actually make you go faster! If they are reasonably streamlined, they extend the length of your stem, and the air moves around the stem more efficiently. A bit like how TT bikes have wider forks.

While you were at it with Profile Design, why not include the fast forward seat post as an added option to get that steeper seat tube angle? :)

the Redshift Sport's dual-position seat post would've been worth mentioning, you can have it set for your road position and your tri position without having to get your allen wrench out every time you want to switch your saddle position, but as its really obvious and apparent in this video that Profile Design is a show sponsor, that probably wasnt allowed.

store food in your bibs shorts if you have them tight enought then they wont fall out and it will make your muscles look a bit bigger :)

nice video... as for me, i had to replace my seatpost with the fast forward seat post by profile design in order to achieve a more aerodynamic position.

Lovely jeans cut!

you have missed out the option of the profile design forward seat post that will bring you in to a better position

Lloydy on TTbars?! Are pigs flying?!

Love the way that the GTN presenters have found their feet...but surely a little something dies inside Heather when she has to present a massively tedious yawn-fest of an advertorial for 'profile design'... or Mark has to yet again drag out another pair of 'on' sneakers...Not sure what I'm objecting to here...I've got a load of profile stuff and it's great...and 'yes'...I know GTN is a commercial vehicle rather than a charity...but a little more subtlety to maintain the illusion that we are humans... rather than data/ dollar might stop people writing rubbish like this...

With the aero bento boxes my top tube narrows like your bike and if the box can move backwards it turns upside down. Nice yours has the cable around the stem to avoid that. For riding position I moved the saddle forward, up and tipped nose down a bit more. Might be an idea to measure front and rear of the saddle relative to the bottom bracket to keep the relationship the same.

Good video Heather, but I would have included a set of racing wheels. I have a set of Mavic Cosmic Carbon 55s with aluminium rims (about $1000). One bike for both training and racing so I know I'll be comfortable and not "squirely" when racing.

What kind of road bike is best suited for this, my girlfriend has an endurance bike and this BMC looks like aero-road bike.