Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

LOL @ Fasterer. Hope there is a forum to go with it.

About time you had kids isn't it?

TransAm's been won by one Melbourne lad. Why can't another do it? :)
RAAM completion would be a nice bucket list tick.
Anyway you're already fast, what are you worried about?

No fucking chance.

Right, lets talk about next season's racing...

Andy wilkinson and christoph strausser have set the bar pretty high. You're not far behind.

I reckon don't bother with raam, just go unsupported racing. It's where the fun it.

Dowsetts Nat TT ride: https://www.strava.com/activities/333361495/overview

I could be drinking lager or something instead of riding up and down A roads 12 hours at a time.

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Nice one Ed!

Riding across the US would provide good scope for brewery visiting..

@hippy sounds like you need to ride a bike for fun again. There's a nice ride overnight to the Suffolk coast next month if you're interested....

I always get this way when the training gets longer and I run out of time to sort things out. Once the 24hr is done the TT bikes can go away for a month and I'll try and sort my PBP road bike out. Then a few more short TTs and maybe a trip to the US and then I'll be off the bike.

I can't keep up: did you sort the 11 speed/Raltech thang?

It's a work in progress. Madison don't bring in the 17T sprocket I need (or any other for that matter) so I had to order from Germany. Bike Whisperer sorting me out with spacers but I'm out at a gig on Monday so won't see them so it'll be another week or so before I see if the Dark Speed Works method works.

If all else fails, get the Dremel out and cut the outer/toothed part of the bottom sprocket off, leaving the centre riveted to the cluster?

Another option. Expensive cassette to be attacking with a dremel though.

Losers count pennies.

Winners count trophies.

But I'm already implementing a more expensive solution by buying new shit :)

Well I hope your 50 went better than mine Scilly. Zip on my skinsuit broke just before my start, so I had to pin it together.

Elite Crono bottle look really good in a BTA setup, but pisses out its contents every time you go over a bump. Which when you ride on UK TT courses, is quite often. Pretty sure I only drank about 100ml from it.

Didn't really try hard enough, shit power,kept getting distracted. Head wasn't in the right place, mentally or physically.

Oh, and I missed the fucking finish. Went on straight past the finish sliproad. Said fuck a lot, walked the bike back to the finish. Was on for a 1:53 which is still shit. Don't even know if I'll get a time or a DNF, would probably prefer the DNF tbh.

Well, I sensibly prepared my pills, powders & potions last night... and left them in the fridge this morning.

However, my zip-tied BTA bottle cage held and someone had dropped a gel on the way to the start, so I slipped that up my sleeve: balance restored.

I was seeded with 23:00 and vets standard is 18:18, so I'm more than happy with 15:00 and my race partner bagged the ten year old course record.

Godric CC laid on a proper, old school spread and were marshalled up to the hilt.

2:15/50 Would trash my gooch again!

Elite Crono bottle look really good in a BTA setup, but pisses out its contents every time you go over a bump.

http://www.sigmasport.co.uk/item/XLab/Aqua-Shot-25oz-Bottle-with-Clear-Cap/3KA7?wmp=341

What's the difference between that and a normal bottle?

Designed to be used horizontally (apparently): not used one myself, just had it on my short-list.

Haven't had a problem with regular bottles, the Crono is just a retarded design. Cap just clips on rather than screws, and doesn't really have a proper valve so water can force it's way out.

unlucky dude, it's always so stressful when something goes wrong before you have even started. 1:53 is hardly 'shit' though. Better luck next time!

doesn't really have a proper valve so water can force it's way out

Even the Camelbak Podium ejects fluid when used in the horizontal position on UK roads.