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A bit of advice from those with Tri experience. I've been asked to do the bike leg of the South Cerney triathlon this weekend and having never done this before I'm looking forward to it, but am slightly concerned about sharing the road with large numbers of, how shall I say this, people with less than adequate bike handling skills.
I've stumbled across the odd Tri when I've been out and about on the fixed gear and chuckled at the lack of speed and general weaving levels, however, I am likely to be starting my ride amongst the middle markers as my swimming friend is probably a middle marker himself, so I'm a bit concerned about going full tilt on my TT bike through crowds of wobblers.
I'm debating just taking the road bike just to give myself more chance of avoiding Kamikazes, but obviously the TT would be faster. Am I over thinking this or will the roads be so over crowded the advantage of the TT bike will be lost?
Thanks for any guidance.