Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

how long in advance of events are start sheets usually sent out.

As a matter of regulation, start sheets should go out by first class post not less than 5 days before the event. IE emails should go out at the same time.

Bums. No excuses.

So just before a tropical thunderstorm is optimum?

what's the protocol on not getting into an open, do you normally receive a start sheet either way?

No, you just get a notification that your entry has been unsuccessful. In the olden days, you'd get your entry form and cheque back through the post.

There is no fail.

Oh but there is. I think I'll probably prove it later. I haven't ridden more than 7 miles for a month and haven't done more than a few hundred yards on tri bars evah.

Still, I'll defo win my class as every other fecker turns up with gears.

So you're fresh. PB or die tryin'. GangstaTT4lyfs

No, because as others have said, hot is good. But you have a much better excuse - never ridden with tri-bars, need to adapt, tweak position, optimise aero v. biomech balance, blah blah blah. Plenty of potential for excuses there.

Aerobars on, no excuses valid.

Is this the ...a3crg event on the 13th? If so, they are excellent organisers so you'll get it in good time.

Eh? Aerobars = whole world of new excuses. Anyway, they obviously don't make that much difference, because a chap on a normal road bike beat me by 2 minutes on Tuesday evening's club 25.

yes, sure they are well organised, its just as its a monday and 2 hours from the office, i need to make some plans for an urm meeting in the area that day if im in....!

I had a mechanical and dnf. :(

I managed about a mile before I had to clamber up a stinger infested bank and through a hedge to get off the dual carriageway and walk back to the start.

F2A is 4 miles out and 6 back and there was a steady tail wind for the return so I think some fast times will be set.

Tri bars were ok but I definitely need practice, once I start wobbling it all gets a bit tense.

I fixed the bike and ttd the 8.8 miles home at 26mph (wind asst).

Still won my class of course.

As did the bloke on the Lotus Boardman bike. Proper class.

What was the mechanical? What did your subconcious forget to tighten?

Lozzle. The drivetrain was making worrying jingly jangly noises and I didn't fancy it letting go and me going under a truck.

It seems it was just the rear axle in le olde Comete. I loosened the NDS nut, tightened the axle on to the bearing a turn and it went away. It wasn't doing it on the ride out. Or at least not that I noticed. And what the jangling was I don't know, maybe the wheel rocking causing the chain to rattle.

I guess I probably could have finished, but it's a hairy old dual carriageway nowadays and I didn't feel comfortable keeping going.

What's your 25 LTS?

@Sam never done one! Done 10, 50 and 100!

55t Dura Ace chainring

Still available? Would be handy if I decide to borrow my sister-in-law's Omnomnoms.

Sold I'm afraid

I had a mechanical

A tried & tested excuse: sometimes the old ones are the best.

56/13 would breakdown again

Later I will photograph and send you the stings on my legs where I had to climb over a nettly bank to get off the dual carriageway.

That's the least you deserve for your abort. How very dare you! Dog house >>>

:(

Hutch done a 19. I think I would have too given the favourable conditions. Probably.

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