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Are you planning to use this machine for time trials?
If so you will find your performances are a bit disappointing (by modern standards) if you don't use 'clip on' bars. These were permitted from the '91 season onwards, so they wouldn't be wildly anachronistic, and it is estimated that they make a difference of about 6 seconds per mile, that is about two and a half minutes in a 25. This gain was enough to keep a number of old blokes in the TT game who would otherwise have retired - incidentally, the faster you go, the greater the benefit!