Handling skills or hospital bills
I was introduced to this term last Wednesday by Dr. Coggan. He was referring to a setup that was completely opposite mine...yet similar in some respects.
His setup was aero-or-die also know as aero bars with no base bar. Mine has a base bar but no aero bar. Both setups rely on the rider to draw rather heavily on his/her handling skills at times during the ride.
I have no photos of Andy's setup, but my wife shot this one of mine. She reluctantly agreed to snap the photo, but requests that I start asking for donations for some new shorts, or stop wearing them. Sounds like I just got the OK to start shopping for new bibs!
the other photo
Here is a picture of the Aero-or-die setup. As you can imagine it cheats the wind a little better than my setup!
By eknewers at 2009-07-29
ughh...
I can't get my head around what happens when the unexpected occurs and you have to attempt to control that bike (car pulls out, varmit crosses your path, etc.) I sure as heck wouldn't want to panic steer a TT bike with aero bars only.
BTW, you should eat a little more because you're making it tough for all us fatty-types. ;-)
Perspective
I am not sure what lens she was using, but a lot of that photo looks odd. My rear wheel looks like a 650 for example. Anyway, hopefully I do not really look that goofy most of the time.
As for that TT bike...the guy that rides that one is so friggen' fast that if something pulled out or ran across in front of him, he could not possibly make it to the bullhorns in time anyway...therefore "aero-or-die"
As Ken said...
...handling skills or hospital bills. ;-)