• As someone who has been planning on entering next years race since late 2015...

    Fastest is a hard term to define. Over that kind of distance I find comfort will come in to play (as many current riders are discovering).

    Current plans are for a TI frame, carbon fork plus wide tires/wheels. Relatively relaxed geo but with TT bars.

    We (Talbot) can make an entire bike that's focused entirely on the challenge - so the riders morphology, the kit etc, I'd love to work with a luggage designer from a clean sheet starting point to look at how we could design bike, luggage, electronics, hydration and so forth as a complete system that majored on comfort at (long distance) pace alongside aerodynamics. It's a fascinating challenge when you consider all the various parts that go into it.

  • We (Talbot) can make an entire bike that's focused entirely on the challenge - so the riders morphology, the kit etc, I'd love to work with a luggage designer from a clean sheet starting point to look at how we could design bike, luggage, electronics, hydration and so forth as a complete system that majored on comfort at (long distance) pace alongside aerodynamics. It's a fascinating challenge when you consider all the various parts that go into it.

    This is what I want.... I'm thinking of giving this a go in 2018 - spending next year building up with some 200 / 300 / 500 / 1000 mile multi day rides and want to be able to have system in place so I don't have a lot of the last minute equipment panics some of the others have.....

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