Fixed Time Trial Bikes

As Sheldon might have said...

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Kind of considering doing a TT on my Planet X Tor next year. Been doing them on an adapted Felt AR1, so the position on the Tor is way better.

A question though, as I'll have to change the forks to standard road forks to fit a brake (although I'm not even sure if they'll fit due to the weird cut out), how would that affect the geo/handling? Got some spare forks from a Boardman Air in the garage that'll do the trick.

They're not on the PX site anymore, but I'm pretty sure this is the same frame for the geo details (I'm on the L size with the 57cm TT): http://www.fixedgear.london/products/london-fixed-gear-track-bike-carbon-pista

how would that affect the geo/handling?

Not sure what fork PX put on the TOR, but if they blindly followed fashion and used a 30mm offset, using a 43mm offset road fork will quicken the steering slightly by reducing trail, but you'd have to be a special snowflake to notice it.

Don't forget to post pics!

This is it in pursuit mode. I've got a corima tri-spoke instead of the deep section front now, though.

EDIT: PS I'm well aware of how silly that drop is! Works for me though, as I'm quite bendy :)

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the deep section front

Still got this? ££?

Nah - sold it to fund the tri-spoke unfortunately!

@mdcc_tester is that 80% thing UCI regs? If so will have to get that sorted. Rode it at the national masters this year, but wasn't checked. Had to lop shitloads off the extensions to make it UCI legal.

Here's a pic of my fixed wheel TT bike, it a steel Paké frame/forks (purchased from Procyclery in Las Vegas in 2011) running Corima wheels, Campagnolo chain set and Centaur brakes (Shimano 600 Tricolor in pic).
I usually ride 53 x 15 or 16, rode the VTTA event on H25/2 in 2014 and recorded 54:08, that's just over 100 rpm, I've done some of my best rides on fixed, 58:07 on CC 01, and quite a few short 21's on H10/2 and H10/8, hope this helps. Regards

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@mdcc_tester is that 80% thing UCI regs?

No, it's CTT regs (14.d.iii), so if you're planning to ride a TT you should be at >80%. I made it a smidge (<0.5%) over, but as you can see the baseline I drew misses the front tyre so you might be under. The good news is that there's no scrutineering, or even a regulation requiring you to submit to scrutineering, so there's basically zero probability that you'd get called on it other than by pedants on cycling fora who have nothing better to do than count pixels on any photos you volunteer :)

Is that you Nic? If so, you can recover your @staggy ID by asking @velocio

is that 80% thing UCI regs?

Nope, CTT: 14.d.iii

Just don't ask about the 3cm rule FFS!

It is mate, how are you keeping? I tried to recover my ID, it wouldn't work! I'll ask my bro, he's better on computers than me.

Ah, cheers for that. The bars may end up coming up a bit anyway for the TT position: make it a bit comfier for a 10 :)

how are you keeping?

Healthy and happy, but also fat and slow. With any luck I can fix the latter without breaking the former :)

this is yours right?
where can i find moar?

Now built up as a TT bike. Will be changing the bars before the race season to something PDQ-esque with ski extensions, so I can slam the stem and use risers. Terrible, terrible use of Boardman forks, but hey, they were in the garage and therefore free.

Yes it's mine. And thanks. I don't have that many pictures of it, but there is a some on my instagram @magnus_bang

These two though...

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Love the old Merc too. Yours?

@tommmmmmm 's

I wrote one of those off. Happier times.

Selling a DA 54 tooth ring if anyone needs.

New bike for the new season:

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