We at A-Race have done all the heavy lifting for you and tallied up which triathlon bike,
above all others, has helped more ironman and ironman 70.3 athletes get on the podium
in 2015.
So if you’ve got spare ten or fifteen thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket that’s
earmarked for a new triathlon bike, and I tell you the three fastest bikes of 2015.
So I have gone through 474 podium finishes from all Ironman and Ironman 70.3 events held
so far in 2015 to see what bikes were ridden by more full distance triathletes in 2015
than any other.
So with that said, here we go.
Coming in at number three with 37 podium placings in 2015 is the Scott Plasma.
Three years ago this bike probably wouldn’t have been in the top five, but since the redesign
to this beautiful integrated, knife-like aero beast three years ago the Scott Plasma has
racked up podium finishes at the Ironman and Ironman 70.3 world championships by Sebastian
Kienle, and Luke McKenzie rode this wheeler to his Ironman Kona runner-up finish in 2013.
Fully Kitted out the Scott Plasma Premium will set you back twelve thousand dollars
and will get you Zipp 404 front and 808 rear wheels, and a mechanical SRAM Red groupset.
In second place, the first runner up with 45 podium finishes in 2015 is the Specialized
Shiv.
Unlike Scott Specialized has been a mainstay of podium Ironman finishers for years, but
similarly to the Scott the Specialized Shiv went through a major redesign in the last
three years with some of the most innovative integration features of any triathlon bike.
The Specialized Shiv was the first bike to completely ignore the legal UCI tube measurements
and go for a design specifically meant for triathlon.
What they came up with was the bike that Craig Alexander used to set the Ironman Kona course
record in the year that this came out.
With 60 millimeter Roval Rapid wheels and Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 the Shiv comes in at
ten thousand five hundred dollars and features a tool and nutrition box specifically made
to fill the void in the behind the downtube.
And the Downtube itself actually functions as an additional bladder to store your nutrition
drink.
And finally, the bike brand that far and away had more podium placings than any other bike
in this list over the course of 2015 with 75 podium placings is Cervelo.
What’s interesting about Cervelo however is that unlike the Scott Plasma and the Specialized
Shiv triathletes are reaching the podium with any one of a number of Cervelo models: from
the current top of the line P5, down to the entry level P2, or even one of the most common
tri bikes of all-time this previous generation P3.
The current top of the line Cervelo P5 comes in at eleven thousand dollars and gets you
electronic Dura-Ace Di2 shifting, 60 millimeter deep HED wheels, hydraulic braking, and even
a paint job meant to cut down the wind better than previous models.
All that said, I think even though this P5 is a typical modern aero superbike.
I think the fact that this bike count features more than just that one Cervelo triathlon
bike model means that Cervelo makes such quality bikes that they almost become future proofed
for more years than a lot of the other bikes out there.
And I'll back that up because even though my bike here is four or five years old and
this custom paint job is because it's been through a fire where the building burned down
around it, it's still in good shape and there isn't anything on here where it feels like
I'm missing out by not having one of those absolute tops of the line current super bikes.
So those are your top three most common bikes of the podium finishers in Ironman and Ironman
70.3 events in 2015.
If there’s a bike manufacturer that we didn’t mention here and you want to know how they
fared in the bike count comment below and I'll get back to you right away and let you
know how they did.
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