Aerodynamics / Aerodynamic Cost / Aero parts

£2 aero gloves if you don't mind wearing old team kit.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3T-Garmin-Aero-Summer-Hand-Glove-Mitts-Adult-Small-Cycling-Running-Half-Fingered-/141694948771?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20fdad55a3

I'm a fan - it's a helmet and does the job. I had to remove the height adjuster to get it to fit my head okay but was no biggy, and I have to do that with most helmets I use anyway.

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How does the sizing coming up in these?

Maybe I'll buy a pair and if they are too small, pass them onto the missus so she can be all aero on the back on the tandem :)

Stretchy, according to Xavier. Can't really go wrong for £2.

Cheers - Bought

this tickled me .. x post from WW

A couple of points after listening to this Cycling Time Trial podcast with Mark Cote:

• are you using covers with buckled (?) shoes because that's what you had (in lieu of faster, uncovered shoes) or because that tests faster for you?
  
• that looks like a short (rather than a medium-short) tail lid, but your head doesn't look particularly low compared to your shoulders: is my idea of "low" off?
  
• when he says visors tend to test slower, does he only mean lids designed without visors or can I take the visor off my Kask K.31 for free speed?
  

Visors are cooler, which is worth more than any aero gain/loss

I presume you mean style not temp?

Yup. TT helmets are always a sweaty affair, which is neither style cool nor temp cool.

Road bike event - I was restricted on kit (so no full aero helmet). Every single piece of that setup has been tested, my CdA is ~0.280 like that. Shoe covers were faster.

Visors you need to test independently, it's too much of a generalisation to say that they're always quicker or always slower. If you look at the Specialized/McLaren visor attachment for their TT helmet it's no bloody wonder it's slower

Thanks, much obliged.

This is highly personal. But With the air attack Shield, I always Train With my visor off, and use sunnies instead. Yet road race With the visor on. I just feel I have much better vision With it.

I've ordered the G14. Maybe it'll replace the Giro. I cant really justify a dedicated aero TT/tri helmet yet.

The deal with the Air Attack is it allows riding with the head/face down further (than most glasses). It seems to work.

I have a stiff neck, and a flexible back. So thats exactly what I do.

Wiggo's trip socks from the Hour Record.

They make more sense to me than stick-on trips, maybe @xavierdisley should find somebody who can knit and start making them :-)

Forgive my ignorance, what kind of cleats are they?

Speedplay Aero?

Zesty

Lego cleats

I pointed them out right after he'd got the record but you were too busy looking at his tackle to notice. :P

I knew he had them, first decent photo I've seen.

Of the socks.

@xavierdisley can you make some compression socks (or calf sleeves) with seams like those?

Would buy...

#slvlss

On second thoughts surely the laces cause more drag than the trips save?