Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

Did you find some align rests? I've got a set that i think will be spare now. Inc metal brace/baseplates and 2 pairs of spare pads

I've got an aerocoach angles/align set up with clamps that I probably won't be using this season and a spare profile aero hc torpedo bta system. Perfect for a road bike to tri conversion. Those metal blast stubbies are great though for sprint distance events i had some which i sold on here last summer. I'll list all mine properly later in classifieds

Did you find some align rests? I've got a set that i think will be spare now. Inc metal brace/baseplates and 2 pairs of spare pads

How much are you thinking? :)

£40 posted? But i may have jumped the gun in my response as i've realised I've got a whole setup here to get rid of so should probably see how that goes before splitting to avoid me getting left with half a setup

Trying to work out what size heatshrink to buy to wrap my Aduro bars. Bar circumference is 8cm, anyone done this before?

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Came across this today. Not compatible with my setup otherwise I'd have bought one
https://ezdisc.co.uk/product/ez-aero-chainring-cover/

Is anyone here interested in Chris Froome's comments on TT bikes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnJ48P46qWU

You will need to fast forward about the first seven minutes of this since he's just talking about himself.

However, to his credit he does say that doing away with TT bikes, which he advocates, would actually disadvantage him.

His basic thesis is that TT bikes are dangerous, especially when ridden under training conditions on non closed roads, and he asks whether the sport (I think he means professional cycling) would lose anything if TT's had to be ridden on normal road bikes.

My first question here is: would CTT events follow the lead of the pros if they did go back to TT's on road bikes?

would CTT events follow the lead of the pros if they did go back to TT's on road bikes?

Because the board is unpredictable and insane, they might. If they were sane, they would have banned tribars 30 years ago.

Depends on the rationale. If UCI says it's limiting people to one bike type for sustainability, there's no reason to follow. If they say tribars are not safe for road use, it's hard to see how a minor governing body like CTT could withstand the pressure to fall into line, regardless of the actual facts of the matter.

would CTT events follow the lead of the pros if they did go back to TT's on road bikes?

No.

What events are LFGSS Club Testers are planning on riding this year? What do most of you use for 10 and 25TT Set up gear wise?

Speaking for myself, mostly various club events on the H10/2. If I can find a helmet set up that actually allows me to ride at speed for the duration, I might be doing some open events. Gear wise, I'm looking at 88" on the Rotrax and 94" on the Look 464 and Cervelo T3

Unless they ban loads of other things you're going to end up with this. Aero hoods, head down probably on dangerously narrow bars
https://youtu.be/N80fNqrpeLM

probably on dangerously narrow bars

Well, they already have that covered with Reg.14a. Head-down is already a DQ-able offence on the very rare occasions that anybody bothers to check for it, and seems to be neither more nor less likely if tribars are banned.

Ah of course Reg. 14.a how could i forget 🙄 is there a limit on these setups either in the rule book or just common sense where a new position is no safer than the old one?

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That cable job tho...

Not aero

I don't know about that, just looks gash and if they're cables, hardly efficient. :)

Is this the first year there is a CTT road bike National event?

is there a limit on these setups either in the rule book or just common sense

There is no common sense, except that it is an emergent property in the Darwinian model.

The CTT regulations only stipulate the 35cm minimum width, nothing else for road bikes. There are a couple of position limits for tribars, but they are based on historical positions and nobody modern is going to be troubled by them, and they're never enforced anyway.

There is a general provision that a bike has to be capable of being ridden safely on a public highway open to general traffic, but the usual way to be discovered violating that regulation is to crash, so we're back to Darwin

Ah of course Reg. 14.a how could i forget 🙄

Every time you ride a CTT event, you sign a form stating that the event will be held under the Rules and Regulations of Cycling Time Trials as shown in the current Handbook and confirm that you are conversant with such Rules and Regulations and undertake to abide by them

It's surprising (or not, given that modern people have been programmed to accept terms without reading them) how many people have never read the regulations before taking part.

I just have a quick look around at everyone else and if what I'm riding, wearing and doing looks similar to everyone else i assume I'm going to be fine and just tick and sign without ever reading the rules. I have since had a quick scan of the British Triathlon rules after being DQ'd for the most minor infringement (going the wrong way around a cone coming into T2) in a race i won. I was sulking for weeks after that one

When you've the possibility of spending 24hrs on a TT bike only to be DQ'd for something, you check the rules. Just sayin'

Because the board is unpredictable and insane, they might. If they were sane, they would have banned tribars 30 years ago.

As we get older Tester and I seem to be more and more in agreement.

Quite aside from the safety issue, tribars pretty much invalidated the whole heritage of existing TT records at a stroke.

'regardless of the actual facts of the matter' (Tester's second post).

Yes 'actual facts' don't have much influence - my impression is that there is a slave like following of what the pros do; that's why I'm inclined to think CTT would change.

However, there does seem to be a feeling in the air that there's some virtue in using road bikes for TT's, is there not?

Time to dust off the Argos TT Entered Chippenham 10m TT on 2nd April !

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