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@ewanmac
This.
As a triathlete I'm insatiably drawn to whatever the next big fad is (preferably the more expensive the better), and I love TT bikes. But, I've just trawled through road.cc's Eurobike TT gallery and have to say I feel hugely disappointed. That white Canyon is lovely, I'm increasingly drawn to the new BMC but other than that there was reasonably little of interest in there.
I'm no expert on the aerodynamics of frame shapes but most of the bikes in there just struck me as carelessly thought out with brakes and wires everywhere. Why go to the extravagance of a crazy seat post cluster and still have the brakes sat out in the open (Orbea), Why go to the trouble of hiding the brakes from the wind and then run the cables out in the open and then go to the trouble of highlighting this with luminous cable guides (Stevens)? And what is it with the massive tubing on the De Rosa with no internal cable routing at all??
To me TT bikes are about simplicity and having as little exposed to the wind as possible. Step 1: Allow for a versatile fit, Step 2: Hide the brakes, hide the cables and hide the di2 battery and maybe do something clever with the stem... The big names such as the SC, Shiv, Time Machine all seem to have got this more or less under control (as does the ugly new Slice) but it seems so many TT bikes don't consider the basics before they start worrying about doing something crazy with the frame. They don't even seem to go to the effort of copying the top frames!
What I'd love to see is an updated P3 with integrated brakes, clever minimal cabling and a hidden di2 battery. Oh, and if they could somehow incorporate cam-tail tubing then that would be ace too!