Aerodynamics / Aerodynamic Cost / Aero parts

Perhaps not quite 47 seconds, but as this bloke has gone faster than you on an old steel thing I wouldn't worry too much about the bike.

He has a Zipp disc. I don't have a Zipp disc. Conclusion: I need a Zipp disc.

Can I blame those 47 seconds on riding a sub-optimal frame?

Yes, the old Shiv was over 5 minutes faster

Ahhh... HED3, it must've been my lack of a HED3.

Or Tulas, definitely the Tulas saved him a minute or two.

Sponsorship. If I just had sponsors logos all over my skinsuit I'd definitely go sub-55...

Those look like prototype R1s, even more expensive fast.

Even if you're right about that, R1 ARE Tulas. #pedant Or maybe not. Ah fuck it I don't know.

Anyway, prototype bars = sponsorship cheating. I'm still faster than him over 12 hours and 24 hours, real man events.

That's a ddiZ disc, can't you read?

Where are these tri folks riding?
The Argon 18 tri bike is like an aero tourer.

For 2017 there'll be dynamo hubs and map holders.

I'm from downunder. I flip everything before reading it.

Unlike CTT events I think lots of tris are quite lumpy. Just like the athletes.

oooh get that hippy making a fat joke against other people! #oof

He's still faster than me (and you, probably):
http://ccbreckland.co.uk/2015/08/testing-conditions-for-time-triallists/

Are you suggesting that it's not about the bike? Sounds like very suspicious rhetoric to me...

I'm saying I'm the faster rider ever over all distances and times, I just don't have the right kit. Better?

Well, it was posted by umop3pisdn, so you have to flip it twice.

Ah, of course. It's so hard being a forrun sometimes. Theresa May was right.

I do the lumpyest of tris, and am the lumpyest of triathletes. All the more reason not to ride a pointy tourer with a frame filled with water. Especially a black frame full of water. I wonder if they left the bike in the sun for a couple hours then tested the drink.

Nice for long training rides though.

It feels like a reaction by hurt tri bike designers. Seeing their designs destroyed by triathletes bolting loads of crap to them.

Well still find a way to uglyfy them (further).

Ironman distance or GTFO >>>

There's an entire industry of shit to strap to tri bikes. I know, because I've bought most of it.

Of all the £££s of crap I've bought over the last year.

The absolute fastest upgrade was elastic laces.

I still have a pair of those from a past life...

There's an entire industry of shit to strap to tri bikes.

Which I'm carefully avoiding at the moment. I'll be using this for IM Wales (without the Carradice though):-

http://www.greenbank.org/misc/IMG_1267_small.jpg

I will need something higher than the Profile Carbon Stryke I've got, I can't maintain that position (with my current gut at least) for 10km let alone the majority of 180km. Then again, it's lumpy enough I'm more worried about W/kg rather than W/CdA.

ARGH MY EYES!!!!

Get that out of my aero thread! :P

Fuck that's a lot of stuff.

I did last year's 550km sportive with just a topeak aero wedge saddle bag (oh so aero).

Might sign up for next year.

Probably frowned apon. But I'm considering mounting the pads of my aero bars. Give me place to rest my elbows when the roads flat.

Fuck that's a lot of stuff.

400km with the overnight section devoid of anything open (Aberystwyth to Shrewsbury), no controls/food-stops and only 3 or 4 riders behind.

Probably the same amount of stuff that hippy had on PBP, but carried in a lot less aero way. Nowadays I'd go with frame bags.

For the IM I'll have a seat pack the size of a gnat's chuff and a tri-bag stuffed with gelled-crap(TM).