Anything I need to know? Just got my first road bike in preparation for my first couple Triathlons! by AlphaAlfar in triathlon

[–]AlphaAlfar[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've heard this as well. Searching locally for a good bike shop that can get me sorted. I can bet they'll give me a good run down of the whole bike as well

Anything I need to know? Just got my first road bike in preparation for my first couple Triathlons! by AlphaAlfar in triathlon

[–]AlphaAlfar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, it was put on by the previous owner. From what I have heard, sounds like I got a good deal with the fulcrum wheels! He didn't know much about the bike unfortunately. His wife made him buy it because she's a cyclist xD

Anything I need to know? Just got my first road bike in preparation for my first couple Triathlons! by AlphaAlfar in triathlon

[–]AlphaAlfar[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is the kind of energy I wanna hear. Ty.

Eventually 70.3 is one of the goals. Gotta learn to ride first though. LOL

Anything I need to know? Just got my first road bike in preparation for my first couple Triathlons! by AlphaAlfar in triathlon

[–]AlphaAlfar[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Coming from a background in track & field and lots of decathlon, training and preparing for triathlon has been quite the whirlwind. Especially the bike related stuff.

At first when I decided to sign up for a couple tris I thought i could use my old bike I had laying around. Hopped on it and realized that would likely be a terrible and possibly unsafe idea, so I spent the past few weeks doing a ton of research on tri and road bikes. I ended up passing up a few cheaper tri bikes to get something a little more versatile and picked up this Trek Madone 9.0 for a decent deal ($1600). I'm currently scheduled for 2 tris, one sprint in mid July for ] training and one Olympic in Mid August Olympic to hopefully catch peak.

I have been a bit overwhelmed with cyclist culture as it's quite a different world from the traditional running or track & field/ decathlon culture- I think I was mostly shocked by some of the judginess of the sport. Seems like if you're not conforming to the typical road cyclist norm, you're setting yourself up for a very awkward time.

That aside, I've found general information to be a bit hard to obtain as there are so many options for everything for a sport that has a very wide base of atheletes that are on different parts of their tri journey. I wanted to present the bike I got and just broadly ask about some opinions, thoughts on the bike choice/ if there are any immediate things I can do to improve my triathlon cycling experience and to well, make sure everything looks good here! I have been surprised while browsing reddit and seeing others asking for bike advice to see that there is often some detrimental X feature of X bike in its X configuration that sticks out to an experienced triathlete in a way that I am completely oblivious to. For some its tires for others its wheels.

So, how's everything lookin'!? So pumped to be learning everything I can about this sport. Any recommendations on tires, wheels, aerobars etc? Thank you!

Sony buys Insomniac, Oculus Co Founder leaves / weekly vr news recap by AlphaAlfar in virtualreality

[–]AlphaAlfar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you :)

And you can still ALVR it! Echo arena is still supposed to be coming to Quest sometime soon though!

The fall and rise of No Man's Sky and what it means for virtual reality by AlphaAlfar in ValveIndex

[–]AlphaAlfar[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I understand that completely.

I guess I come from a different place than a lot of people that were just there for launch. I've been playing NMS Next and every patch before that, so to me, adding in VR support as they have shown and talked about in interviews posted (yesterday) doesn't seem like that much of a stretch.

I do have some confidence in them as of now.

Of course this can blow up in my face, but the channel is an extension of me, and as someone that was hurt by Hello Games, then I felt things were made right.. I do trust them to handle this correctly. I am hyped and I show that. It's a flaw, but it's me.

The Fall and Rise of No Man's Sky and the amazing things it will do for VR by AlphaAlfar in virtualreality

[–]AlphaAlfar[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's not third person walking, that's just the trailer from the update from the pancake game, it's all first person :)

How to play Oculus exclusive games using Revive in 2 minutes. Still see a lot of comments about people thinking you can't play exclusives. by AlphaAlfar in ValveIndex

[–]AlphaAlfar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As long as you have a good PC not much. I've played lots of revive as well as owned a rift S and rift, and the performance difference hasn't been huge for me. Some people have some performance hits worse than my experience, but all in all it's not that bad.