Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

Road bike only class: gateway drug

I mean that's basically the whole point of it

Also handy for early season races when I don't fancy dragging my most expensive bike through mucky weather.

The local (Kent district) NYD 10 has a road bike category, but not a separate event within the actual event, you just state when signing on that you are on a road bike.

Robin Johnson of Brighton Mitre CC always has lots of different categories in the events he organises, road bikes and Medium Gear amongst others.

The Richmond Park TT has a big road category, too.

ISTR that the overall win was on a road bike recently.

Bad news for my bank balance, the fitter said yes. Entry level end of season sale Speedmax on the way.

Couple of wanted ads for Di2 if anyone has some spare for sale..

Overall series win in ours this year was done on a road bike

on a rode bike

They all tend to be

:)

Not a push bike?

Only if you've punctured.

Glad I didn't bail on the Leo 30 today. The roads were pretty much dry and conditions were really good, especially in the second half of the field.

Mens comp record went twice. Quite cruelly it was beaten three times, but the second fastest rider was off last so wont get his name in the record books. The team record and tandem team record was also beaten.

My best average speeds for 10, 30 and 50 are now within 0.4 kph with my 25 sitting a sad 1 kph slower. Not sure I will make many improvements next season as I'm following @hippy and @skinny into the expensive world of long distance races.

Also, congratulations @skinny and Isabelle on getting hitched!

Cracking work @cjr 👌🏻

The road bike stuff is definitely a gateway to actually doing TTs. As it stands CTT board are looking like they won’t accept the proposal to get specific road bike regs included, but mainly because they don’t want people to keep moving the regs around as per the 3cm rule stuff. I have to get everything past CTT Midland first who are basically the board, but it doesn’t necessarily matter as we (AeroCoach) will go straight to organisers anyway, make sure there’s a calendar on our site of events where you know there’s a road bike category, use the “AeroCoach” rules, the works.

The road bike stuff is definitely a gateway to actually doing TTs

Riding TTs on your road bike (or MTB, Brompton etc.) is "actually doing TTs"

Exactly - the people it's designed to attract currently aren't actually doing TTs because they only have a road bike

We all know that the rules allow any kind of bike, it's the perception that you have to have a TT bike that's putting people off.

Maybe "actually doing TTs" is the wrong way of putting it - doing TTs on TT bikes I suppose, but I wouldn't be surprised (if it all takes off well) if some people don't bother going the TT bike route and treat it as normal training.

I wouldn't be surprised (if it all takes off well) if some people don't bother going the TT bike route and treat it as normal training.

The hope, surely, is that new entrants never feel that they have to buy a dedicated TT bike, and an increasing number of people who already have TT bikes see the error of their ways and cross over permanently to the Sport (i.e. anything not banned by the rules, not just road racing bikes) category 🙂

I will continue to race all my CTT legal bikes in whatever categories are available to me, choosing the least appropriate bike for the most LOLs.

Shiv plus drops plus cut up Javelin to expose your ears, 100% fine 👌🏻

use the “AeroCoach” rules

And ban this, apparently. Seems needlessly restrictive

I knew I kept my old Javelin for something!

expose your ears

How long before the first ear doping scandal?

(also that guy almost has an aero fairing on his head)

Does pinning your ears back for aero gains count?
There’s definitely a couple of pros who might gain a watt or two...

Ears pinned back or removed completely. Retain elongated lobes for rule-flouting if you want to sneak into the road category with your TT helmet.

Nose should be bulbous/hemispherical. Alternatively remove completely (+2 airflow, -40 charisma)

Skull should be elongated from birth for that aero teardrop shape and freshly shaved before each ride. You wouldn't even need a TT helmet.

Not having a septum would improve airflow, but would be pretty suspicious of recreational drug use...