| The next phase you'll encounter after a free-for-all wild | | | | for each of them. |
| swim is the bike race. This might not actually be the | | | | Sure, the technologies used to develop a $10,000 |
| hardest (after all, you only have to know the basics of | | | | triathlon bicycle would actually create some edges |
| biking and the principles that would maximize your | | | | over those who only ride on $250 bikes. Nonetheless, |
| performance while riding) but it can also make big | | | | never forget that the bike period is only a part of the |
| differences during the race. | | | | three areas of discipline triathlon covers. And the bike |
| In preparation for the triathlon, far too many people | | | | itself is only a single component of the bike transition. |
| seem to put much importance on the type of triathlon | | | | You must still consider and be able to look eye on |
| bicycle than with what they can do with it. Some even | | | | other principles that will lead you to the last transition |
| spend grand on a top-of-the-line bicycle and forget all | | | | stage. |
| about the thing that matters most- proper use. | | | | Say you are riding on a high-end, oozing new triathlon |
| On some points of the race, competitors believe that | | | | bicycle yet bargained so much on the benefits it might |
| those with lighter and faster bikes have the most | | | | give you. You surely have the speed, the style, and the |
| advantages. This cant be far from the truth but this | | | | envy of the onlookers and fellow triathletes. But |
| does not tell it all. After all, the manner of use and the | | | | without proper skills in it's operation, or proper planning |
| person's actual capacity to optimize the bicycle will | | | | during the course and even the endurance to continue |
| create big differences. | | | | biking after loosing much strength during the swim |
| For some unknown reasons, that only you would | | | | stage, your "nice bike" would be turned into nothing. |
| somehow realize, a single bike would fit you. It wont | | | | It might be cool to pass fellow racers on the initial run |
| matter how expensive it is or how old. Like your | | | | yet once they passed you over with their dreaded |
| favorite running shoes, your triathlon bicycle would suit | | | | looks, you'll wish that you're on a $300 beater. (That |
| your style, your needs and your ability. It is just a | | | | way, you would atleast have an excuse of being |
| matter of trying on different bikes and getting the feel | | | | beaten). |