As Dan Empfield, founder of QR and editor of slowtwitch.com says: “There are bikes ridden in the front men's pro pack at Kona that are not as good as the Dual.” The frame offers all the details and performance tricks one could expect of a frame twice the price, so there really wasn’t anything we wanted to change there.
In fact, the Dual is so good that in 2004 the Dual became the best selling triathlon bike in its class. With a pro-level frame, no-nonsense functional design and a rock-solid parts kit, the best thing we could do with the Dual is not change a thing. Tamara Kozulina won the World Long Course Championships with a stock Dual. The rear wheel was the only non-stock part.
So what do we do in 2006 with a bike that has won Worlds after everybody tells us not to change a thing? We upgrade the drivetrain from Ultegra to DuraAce, throw in a full-aero Visiontech front-end, upgrade the cranks to a 2-piece system as used by the pros, add Cervélo’s new TT-specific saddle and top it off with the Wolf TT fork, the exact same fork as used by Dave Zabriskie and Ivan Basso for their time trial victories.
