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08-13-19, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by guachi

I own a 2019 Trek Domane SL5 Disc. I will be doing my first century at the beginning of September in Delaware, the Amish Country Bike Tour. The course is ridiculously flat; the 100-mile course has 937 feet of elevation change of its length as you can see here: https://ridewithgps.com/events/97652...bike-tour-2019.

I would like to buy a set of aero bars and buying them for this ride seems like a good enough excuse. I don't think I need anything fancy or expensive.

Do any of you have any recommendations for a good, basic set of aero bars? I can get the basic Bontrager set at my Trek store where I got my bike: https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/e...olorCode=black. Are there any aero bars you've particularly liked or that you would recommend that would also fit my bike?

I just hope you are planning on doing the ride solo, rather than in a pace line. In general, aero bars in a pace line make me very uneasy. A rider inexperienced with aero bars on a pace line? Seems like a very bad idea.

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