Tara On Lightweight Bikes

Bicycling's Tara Seplavy talks about lightweight bikes and the Aethos.

Transcript

00:00Aero bikes are getting all the attention right now, particularly when we saw this past summer

00:04where everybody raced an aero bike in the Tour de France. However, got some new lightweight bikes

00:11that are really kind of shining right now for us. So first off, we have BMC Time Machine SLR,

00:18then we have our Cervelo R5. There's also the newly released Specialized Athos 2,

00:26which is just a revision on the fabulous Athos platform. All of the bikes that we're talking

00:32about here come in sub 15 pounds, so under the UCI weight limit. But the big thing about this is

00:40that these aren't really intended for racing anymore. I've been riding the R5 a lot lately,

00:45absolutely love it. It's really lightweight, dynamic. If you're not going out there hunting

00:53KOMs or QOMs and trying to be the fastest overall on a segment, you're going to have some great

00:59ride quality out of these. They just have just a, I don't know, it's a je ne sais quoi about them,

01:04where they just float up the hills. It's an undefinable character that really makes

01:09lightweight bikes super special.