Morning Trainiacs.
The Ventum is clean,
because a clean bike is a fast bike.
It's time to pack up the bike for Challenge Roth.
But before we do that, I'm gonna give you
a little tour from tip to tail including nutrition,
what my Ironman bike setup is going to be for
Challenge Roth.
It's just sparkling, ooo.
(upbeat techno music)
So Trainiacs, this is it.
This is my triathlon bike setup for Challenge Roth.
It is a full Ironman distance race
operated by the Challenge family.
Historically, you might know that
I tend to be a bit of a racing minimalist.
That, I don't like to tape a bunch of things to my bike.
I like to keep it more aerodynamic,
I like to have more things in my pockets,
less things just kind of on the bike.
But we're talking a five hour bike here,
so I gotta think my way through this.
So the setup that I've got dialed in here with
the Ventum one, is what I think is going to be
a really nice, minimalist, aerodynamic setup,
while still giving me all of the nutrition
and all of the safety that I need to fit in.
So let's dive into it.
Starting with the bike, this is the custom
Ventum One Aero Tri-bike.
People still ask me if I actually do like the Ventum,
and yes, I love the Ventum.
They don't pay me a dollar.
The reason that I like it,
is because the lack of the down tube
creates a much more stable front end.
When you settle in and start riding on the front end,
the chatter in the bike is greatly minimized
because you don't have the wheel snapping wind back into
the frame, creating turbulence.
And right from Ironman data, it's actually been shown
that when you combine the bike and the run,
Ventum is 17 minutes faster on average because
you get a little bit faster on the bike,
but you're also fresher for the run.
The wheels, we've got a deep section
80 millimeter alto on the front,
and we're gonna go disk on the back.
Wasn't sure if I was gonna go with the disk,
or an 80 millimeter rear wheel
because right around five hours is what I'm hoping for.
It's kind of 50/50 whether the disk helps or hurts you,
but I've been getting a lot of messages saying
that it absolutely helps.
The group set is the Shimano Dura-ace Di2.
This is the top of the line,
electronic shifting from Shimano that a lot of the pros use,
that I'm lucky enough to use.
And I've just recently switched over to a 165 crank length.
Stay tuned for a video I'm going to do on that
talking about the improvements going to a
shorter crank length to be a little bit more aero,
and a little bit fresher.
The rubber that I'm using on the wheels
isn't quite the absolute top of the line turbo cottons,
that are really just good for maybe one or two races.
This is the next line down.
This is the S-Works Gripton,
so I'll probably get six to eight races out of these,
and inside we have nice, light latex tubes.
So the spinning resistance is really low,
the rolling resistance is really low,
saving a couple of watts there.
I believe the course road surface at Challenge Roth
is really good.
Any rougher and I would probably go to something more like
the specialized turbo.
Up at the front, we have the 51 speed shop elbow cups.
Really nice big elbow cups,
so you can just settle into those,
get nice and comfortable, relax your complete upper body.
And then we have the 51 speed shop extensions
that we've angled up with these machine spacers underneath.
Doing that allows you to be a lot more comfortable,
kind of lower your head down.
Basically chin is gonna be right in line with
the top of my hands, creating a really nice
aerodynamic profile starting at the tips at my hands,
all the way to the back of my butt.
I've got the Wahoo Bolt with the custom red
triathlon Teran Trainiac color on it.
Really like this, and the K-Edge mount on it.
With the saddle we have the Cobb Fifty-Five saddle.
This is the same saddle that Patrick Lange used
a couple years ago to win Kona.
It's got the split nose at the front,
and it's a nicely curved saddle,
and Cobb uses longer rails underneath to give you
just a little bit of shock absorption.
And I really found this to be the best saddle
that I've ever tried.
In behind, when we start getting into the nutrition,
I'm going to have two bottles on the back.
One bottle, is just going to actually be for my
flat repair kit.
The other bottle, is going to be a super concentrated
liquid that I'm going to get my electrolytes from.
And that liquid is probably going to be S-fuels.
And there's going to be a bunch of servings in that,
basically undrinkable it's going to be so sweet.
But what I'm going to do is, this water bottle,
it's integrated into the Ventum frame,
carries about 1.6 large bottles of water.
Which is only going to last me about
an hour and 45 minutes.
What I'm going to do, is I'm going to,
as this frame bottle ends up getting depleted,
I can get water on the course,
fill up the frame bottle, and then take the
super concentrate from behind me, and fill this up
so I've got a properly diluted,
always customized to me fluid solution in there.
As far as nutrition goes, I'm just gonna have
the nutrition shoved into my pockets
on the kit underneath my wetsuit
so that I just have to grab the bike
out of transition one, and go.
As far as the helmet goes, we've got the
Laser Tri-Helmet that has the aqua vent up top,
so I can actually squirt water into my head
if the temperature is really, really high.
And the viewing angle with these integrated glasses
is enormous, you can't see the helmet whatsoever.
My power meter on the bike is going to be the
Powertap P2 power pedals.
I always use these pedals,
I find them to be very reliable after travel.
Basically don't require any calibration,
and their battery lasts a long time.
Finally, the shoes are the Shimano TR9.
These are triathlon specific shoes
that have really nice venting inside them.
And inside I have the Solestar carbon fiber insoles
for better power transfer from
my foot through to the pedals.
So that's the bike Trainiacs.
Now, we gotta pack this up.
I got a new bike bag,
it's the new Scicon bag I haven't tried yet.
It's the aerocomfort tri 3.0 TSA.
Who's bag is that?
Huh, huh?
Who's bag is that.
Apparently I won't have to apart the whole
front end in this thing.
And let's go with ten minutes.
If I can do this in under ten minutes, it's a success.
(energetic music)
And there we have it, 15 minutes start to finish.
This is the Scicon aerocomfort tri 3.0 TSA approved.
And you don't have to take off your handlebars,
you don't have to take off your saddle,
don't have to fold the handlebars over.
You can fit just one set of wheels in here unfortunately,
not two.
So you do have to make a game time decision
on which wheel set you're taking.
But Triathlon Teran likes only spending 15 minutes
packing his bag.
So that's it Trainiacs.
That is the setup for the Ventum One,
and how I'm getting it, hopefully safely, to Roth.
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I'm nervous.
Later, Trainiacs.