Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

Nope. Just wondering if anyone had tried it though.

I'm not sure I understand how they would work?

There's also the half-way house option of the Xlab Delta Wing 225..

Xlab Delta Wing 225

Speed > money

@hippy I'm not really I've understood what the problem is, but if it's that the pad needs a second point to rest on to prevent it rotating you could clamp the chain keeper onto the bar and use it as a brace...

Any funky ideas for preventing Shiv bar pads rotating?
Bigger clamps for more grip on the extensions?
Bracing across the two sets of pad bolts so there's something else resisting downward force?

Put the pad clamps in between the two riser-extension clamps, where they are suppose to be? :-)

Serious answer: I think a bridge is going to experience severe bending loads, so making it thick enough to resist them is going to push up the stack from extension to elbow cup. If I had the same issue, I'd probably get Fibrelyte to knock something up in flat 5mm thick crabon fribé, but it might break. Given their very reasonable pricing and fast accurate work, I'd consider that a worthwhile punt, likely to be ~£30 based on what they've charged me for similar work before.

A U-channel which wrapped over the J-brackets would be stiffer but much more expensive to fabricate in CF, and probably still ~£60 if you CNC milled it from aluminium.

That's fine if that's where your arms are. Stumpy freaks.

The Zipp Vuka Alu clips have a double clamp arrangement which might help - if they fit. I could get a brace of some sort as well. How long do Fibrelyte take to build something?

You could try losing some weight?

#Hippybait

I did so now it's up to this pile of shit you call a government to spend some fucking money on the fucking roads.

Where would you put the bridge? Underneath the pad at the front over the bars where the washer is? Or at the back? Or under the actual clamps somehow?

How long do Fibrelyte take to build something?

A week or two. I've usually had stuff in my hand inside 14 days from ordering.

Where would you put the bridge?

Sandwiched between the elbow cups and the j-bracket

Ok, cool. I'm about to pull the trigger on a set of Zipp Vuka Alumina bars anyway because I think that's the best way to get the pads/mounts which look bigger and might be grippier.
I can sell off the bits that are left over (read: stick them under the bed with all the other old/unused bike parts).

So not across the whole thing, ie. joining the pads across the middle?

Yes, obviously going from one side to the other, I thought that was implicit in 'bridge'

If you were a tart, you'd include fittings for your BTA bottle cage in the middle of the bridge.

Yeah but then you said you'd put it between pad and j-clamp and I thought perhaps you were talking about just stopping the pad bending rather than the whole thing moving down.

Thought about trying that but I can't fit a BTA bottle with the light/Garmin mount across the bars.

I can sell off the bits that are left over (read: stick them under the bed with all the other old/unused bike parts).

I actually sold something from my 'under the bed going to put it on eBay when I have time' pile on Sunday. OK, it was brand new and I sold it for slightly less than half retail price, but I did exchange it for cash. I think that's one of the signs of the impending apocalypse, so look out for horsemen riding in fours.

The horsemen are drawing nearer, on leather steeds they ride, they've come to take your life...

Before I buy the whole bars, anyone have unused Zipp Vuka top-mount pads/clamps lying around?

Right, I'm fed up with my SLR TT saddle. It may look like Darth Vader's Dildo, but it's damned uncomfortable. The two are possibly not entirely unrelated.

I'm currently tempted by the Adamo time trial saddle. Obviously the sensible course is to test an extensive range of saddles before choosing the most comfortable based on an informed judgment, and just as obviously I'm not going to do that. So, to Adamo TT or not to Adamo TT?