upsidedown's TT bike

POWER CORDZ™. Really nice to use.

Bar end light is genius!

That really is very neat. However, personally I would swap the lever and the light over.

As well as sorting out that kink in your Cordz, it would place the light more directly in the line of sight of oncoming traffic.

Lights are normally mounted centrally and it would concern me that set-up as you have done, could give the impression that there is more room for overtaking than there actually is; swapped over, the reverse would be true.

Either way, it is very neat.

PS While I'm being a smart-arse and picking holes: are you going to trim the end of your Cordz?

Or just put the light in one of the extensions instead?

However, personally I would swap the lever and the light over.

I tried a left lever last year to get a better cable line on the T3. It's incredibly annoying having the brake on the wrong side when every other bike in the fleet is right-front.

If anybody is relying on your position based on your light being 20cm off centre, they're going to kill you anyway

Swap all your levers...

Switching between lever positions can't be any harder than switching between fixed gear and freewheel.

A left-hand mounted light is particularly poor when you are negotiating a left-hand bend, which is when drivers tend to stray across the centreline anyway.

That really is very neat. However, personally I would swap the lever and the light over.

As well as sorting out that kink in your Cordz, it would place the light more directly in the line of sight of oncoming traffic.

Lights are normally mounted centrally and it would concern me that set-up as you have done, could give the impression that there is more room for overtaking than there actually is; swapped over, the reverse would be true.

Either way, it is very neat.

Don't want a left hand brake lever, and it's only temporary until I get an Omega. I might just be hungover, but why would a front light affect someone overtaking me? Surely they'd only see my centrally mounted rear light? It's more to make me more visible to try and stop people pulling out on me coming down slip roads.

PS While I'm being a smart-arse and picking holes: are you going to trim the end of your Cordz?

Yes, need to take a few links out now that I've switched to the -17 degree stem as well.

Or just put the light in one of the extensions instead?

I tend to wrap my hands over the ends of the extensions, so you wouldn't be able to see it.

...I might just be hungover, but why would a front light affect someone overtaking me? Surely they'd only see my centrally mounted rear light?
Oncoming traffic expecting a centrally mounted light, could get the impression that you're further away from the centreline than you are and therefore there is room to overtake traffic on their side of the road.

Oh right, gotcha. I suppose it's a risk I'll have to take.

The older I get, the more cautious I become.

#livefastdieyoung

Is never for a front light to a Tt bike.

If training on it yes. But not a preeminent fixture. Unless 12/24h TT

I feel the minuscule difference it will make to my speed is far outweighed by how much more visible it makes me. Watch some people time trialling on a drizzly dual carriageway, the ones without lights are harder to see. I'd prefer not to be knocked off by a car who failed to see me.

Totally.

On the H10/2 in the evening, I'm pretty sure my front light does me more good than my tail light, both because of the difference it makes to visibilty and the hazards which it might mitigate, i.e. people pulling out of side roads. Vehicles approaching from behind have much longer to see me, probably aren't on tester-crossing orbits anyway, and are likely to see me silhouetted against the light horizon rather than the dark hedges, thanks to the different angle of their sightline.

And an evening TT is training ;)

How is your training going upsidedown?

Yeah, pretty well I think, though obviously with power data or race results I can't really tell. Probably going to do a club hilly this weekend, but that'll be on my road bike.

If you want to be fast on the TT bike. Spend as much time as possible on TT bike. Adaption matters.

All of my turbo work is done on it, and most road rides. It's a hilly course that i'm gonna be doing on 4 hours sleep, I'm sure it won't matter too much.

Ha, yes.

Have you had to change position since you started training on it?

Not really, raised the saddle 5mm the other day and moved it forward a bit. Arm rests have come down and in 10mm.

BOOM!

How are you getting on with the Adamo?

Love it, the TT one feels much better than the old racing one I had before.