3rd Generation Tri-Bars: The Tri-Spoon

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2011-09-16 10:07 PM


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Subject: 3rd Generation Tri-Bars: The Tri-Spoon

My title is a overblown, the new tribar configuration is new to me, it may be old to you.

I bought some profile design Century Clip on tribars. They are cheap.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nihonbunka/6154141233/in/photostream/
They were too long and not adjustable so I cut them down like this.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nihonbunka/6154683860/in/photostream/
They were okay, but then I saw that many people are using tri-bars with handles at a much lower angle such as these modern profile Design bars
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nihonbunka/6154683908/in/photostream/
I read an explanation about why modern bars have a lowe angle, explaining that the arm position is more relaxed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nihonbunka/6154683878/in/photostream/
But being short of funds, I decided just to tilt my short old-fashioned tri-bars down. I am very pleased with the result.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nihonbunka/6154681106/in/photostream/
I like the fact that I am leaning on my hands in a natural hand position
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nihonbunka/6154677986/in/photostream/
rather than the (for me) rather unnatural handshake position
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nihonbunka/6154678388/in/photostream/
of "modern try-bars"

I call my bars a tri-spoon because the downwards pointing V looks like it could hold water.

If you have some old style tribars, then you might try making them shorter and sloping them downards. It works for me.

2011-09-25 8:08 PM
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Subject: O Generation Tri-bars

At a triathlon yesterday I had a look at all the tribars that other competitors were using. Short low angle modern 2nd Generation tri-bars proliferated, including some from profile design.

Other people were still using more angled bars and Profile Design Jammers could be set up in the same way as the bars above.

However, there was one bike (a really old bike) with bars almost exactly as described above (except without wrist pads). They were made by cinelli. A search tells me that they were the "Cinelli Spinaci" which were in fact the first bar extensions originally used by road racers in the 90's until they were outlawed by the UCI on 8th October 1997
http://www.cinelli.it/EN/spinaci/storia

The bars I saw were actually "Cinelli Spinacissimi".

I think that Cinelli may have stopped manufacturing these types of bars, sort of tri-bars for road racers, some time after the UCI outlawed them. 

It seems to me that there are lots of triathathetes on road bikes, the rules against drafting are blurry (due to course widths for instance), and there is a need for road bike like tri-bars.

I might try and get some spinachi's but I like having wrist support so I will stick with my homemade jobbies, which are effectively CInelli spinachi with wrist pads.



Edited by timtak 2011-09-25 8:12 PM
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