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@DeathFromSomewhere
Before I started cycling I ran quite a lot and after a Marathon I thought: Let´s do a Triathlon. So I bought my first roadbike. After a couple of months I stopped running at all.
Now there is a local tt event, always in march and october. Same course different races. And I really want to compete on a tt bike. After reading about richard bussell and his bike I wanted to do my own build. But I have no idea what frame to start with. Not with the fitting, but with the aero gains. A more experienced friend through my plan of building up an old frame out of the window, as I would any advantage I can get. But I thought that 80 % of drag comes from your body and so a more aero position would benefit me more than aero brake covers or so on. I was looking at an Canyon Speedmax (the Aluminium one) or maybe an Argon 18 E112. Building it up 1x11 and with some spare parts. I can get some race wheels from friends.
What would you guys reckon? Can I build an aero enough bike on the base of an older tt frame or should I save up?
Cheers,
Jan