Team Toyota Triathlon x Lifetime Sports Unveil Triathlon Themed RAV4

Doesn’t look very aero, and the rolling resistance on those tires, yikes. I bet you can’t even park it in the transition area, so that is going to add minutes to your T1 and T2 splits. so while impressive, it isn’t saving me watts or time, so no thanks… 😉

This actually looks like a really cool mtb roadtrip vehicle. Place to wash and hang muddy clothes, bike racks and a place to work on them, cooler for…ahem…beverages.
Regardless, this is a pretty cool thing to show off. Glad to see the triathlon world meshing with the crowds at SEMA.

@LULZ

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

@pabstrider Notice the sarcasm? “…and a pop-out work stand. What a triathlete will do with that is unknown, but it’s a good spot for hanging the bike until it’s time to roll.”

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Perfect Cyclocross machine. I hope the hype is overwhelming and Subaru takes note!

Goes fast in a straight line, cant corner for sh-t, and has a small windshield on the floor so they can stay in the aero position.

That workstand is pretty cool tho. attach it to a hitch or in the back of a pick up…

Shower capabilities would be possible as well

Pretty cool idea.

Apparently BFG AT’s fit on a Corolla. This must have been a hit with the bro truck SEMA crowd.

I’ll keep my solar shower, hitch mounted workstand, and truck cap changing area for CX races thank you.

My ’89 4Runner is a way cooler race rig.

l think its pretty cool!

Will look nice in front of the local Starbucks.

How urine resistant are the seats? Can you actively pee while driving it? Is there white M-Dot visor stowage? Is the chip on the front or rear bumper? Do I get a Purchaser’s Medal?

Dave, your awareness is disturbing.

You guys fail to ask the most important questions.

1) does the cars brakes actually work?

2) how quickly will Toyota recall it?

The reason you see road on a Rav4 it doesn’t have great ground clearance and most Rav4 owns don’t know how to drive off-road

Finally, a crossover that matches my sleeveless jersey and arm warmers.

Its boss

It’s so disheartening to read all of these negative responses. As someone who works in the industry and hears many of you complain that our sport doesn’t get enough support, cred, respect, etc… a company makes an effort to make it more mainstream and all you can do is bitch about it. You pick it apart as opposed to voicing support and sharing the growth. For once, it would be great to see more positive comments as we are trying to make cycling safer, more accepted and more appreciated…

Weak Tri-cheese… Isuzu VehiCROSS 4TW!

As an avid cyclist, industry executive, and sponsor of your sport, I’m also disheartened by reading all the corrosive responses. Your negativity certainly doesn’t motivate companies to invest in your sport. That’s a shame.

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Interesting position, psyclr. It’s one you can’t support and is a more than a little bit ignorant, but it does provide useful insight into the cycling snob mentality. It’s easy to see how people would not want to take up cycling with so many projecting the foul “I’m more cyclist than thou” ignorance.

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Industry guys, you can’t really do a tsk tsk type of thing in comments, just sayin. Stuff said in these comments is not going to effect the bottom line on a product like this anyway.

Everybody knows this comment zone is harsh, but when a great product comes out you can tell. It’s actually a very valuable sounding board for manus imo. You won’t get as much valuable feedback out of butt kiss social media, that’s for sure. Over there you get a lot of fakes who want free product. Here you will get some real opinions mixed with humor. I think you have a lot of users here who really buy and use bike parts and beat on them and they deserve to say whatever they want.

Rico hit it on the head. It is mildly amusing to read the White Knight comments though.

Mr. Bojangles… please show me where cycling is on the uptick and margins are growing. For your information did you know that the average bike sold in the US in 2013 is $350 and that only 13m units were made/imported.sold in the US. This is equal to where we were in 2007. Being on the manufacturing side, I can safely and honestly say you have no idea what you are talking about.

What I will say is that yes, your comments or “feedback” as Rico said are taken into consideration at board meetings. However, what is also discussed is why do we invest in a bunch of errogant, non welcoming, non committed to growing the sport “cyclists”… I would much rather invest my marketing and manufacturing into beginners who appreciate the sport much more than some guy that thinks he has all the answers.

Let’s remember one thing… when the water rises so do all the boats. If you want your “sport” to grow and garner more respect beyond just yourself… perhaps you should be thankful, grateful and appreciate the efforts of companies who are doing things like this. I don’t see a golf, basketball, running, football or any other sport vehicle like this. Your sport has unique companies that support it and want to help…