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"dukey81" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Hey crew, am looking going at purchasing a new tri bike i am moving up into olympic distance and
half ironman races and hopefully ironman races (eventually) but the majority of my races are of
the sprint distance. What set up would you recommend for me the normal STI or the shifters at the
end of the tri bars (can't remember what their called.

"Barcons" are the little levers that go on the end of drop bars or aero bars.

Will you be training on this bike? Solo or bunch rides? If you are riding in traffic, STI is more
practical and safer. If you are serious, your bike could be fitted with the barcons on the end of
your aero bars. Usually though, I think you would have normal STI levers on the drop bars and
barcons on the aero bars, i.e. both systems could be used for gear changes. It is easy then to
remove the aero bars when doing 'normal' road training.

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You might also want to look at the rec.sport.triathlon ng.

hth hippy

hippy said:

"dukey81" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Barcons" are the little levers that go on the end of drop bars or aero bars.

Indeed. Fine things they are, too.

"Barcons" is also a nice example of an almost-English term ("bar-end controllers", instead of
"bar-end gear levers" or somesuch) that got picked up and used in Japanese (maybe "bâ-kon"* or
"Bâru-kon"*, I'm not sure which, I stoopidly, in retrospect, threw out the packaging of my
"bar-cons"😉 and has **come back into English**.

Cf: "cos-play" (100% definitely), "air-con" (probably) , game-boy (maybe), etc.

And, erm, this helps you... umm, maybe not at all... but it's interesting. Well, to me, at least.

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hippy said:

"dukey81" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

"Barcons" are the little levers that go on the end of drop bars or aero bars.

Indeed. Fine things they are, too.

"Barcons" is also a nice example of an almost-English term ("bar-end controllers", instead of
"bar-end gear levers" or somesuch) that got picked up and used in Japanese (maybe "bâ-kon"* or
"Bâru-kon"*, I'm not sure which, I stoopidly, in retrospect, threw out the packaging of my
"bar-cons"😉 and has **come back into English**.

Cf: "cos-play" (100% definitely), "air-con" (probably) , game-boy (maybe), etc.

And, erm, this helps you... umm, maybe not at all... but it's interesting. Well, to me, at least.

And to me 🙂

One of my favourites is the French "vetetiste". Sorry, can't do the acute accents over the
first two "e"s.

The French for mountain bike is "velo tout terrain", more or less "all terrain bicyle", usually
abbreviated to VTT and pronounced "vay tay tay". Hence vetetiste = mountain bike rider. Generally,
French is more prolix than English, but I enjoy the brevity of this word.

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