Originally Posted by
RChung
My observation is that *most* road riders can, through trial and error, eventually get themselves close to a good position -- but *most* TT and Tri bike riders won't.
This was my Shiv, tri bike. Prior to last year, I really didn't have a tri bike. Only road bikes that I made do with. I got fitted for the tri bike because I figured it would be easier to transfer a lot of that to a road bike for a little more relaxed fit than it would be to get fitted for a road bike and transfer that to a tri bike with a more aggressive fit.
But to answer someone's question above, my focus of this fit was really being comfortable in the saddle. I'm planning on IMAZ this November and my biggest concern with the bike portion is just being able to tolerate ~7 hours on the bike. My experience thus far, with my longest rides only being in the 50 mile range (including one 70.3) is that after about 3 hours, I am absolutely ready to get off the bike.