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Now the demise of the P4 came around at the time I had just started to dip my toe into triathlon. I'd always been better at the longer events when TTing so had the vague bucket list item of getting around an Ironman in my head. As such the focus when looking for a machine to replace the P4 moved to something that was comfortable, could hold a lot of bottles/nutrition and be practical for long training rides, rather than flat out speed from point A to point B.
One day in late 2019 I picked up a rather large box, and inside the box was this:
I quickly set about setting it up, taking the groupset off the Venge which went to fund the build, and pretty quickly it was looking quite a lot like a bike.
Early in 2020 it was done, which was perfectly timed for the multitude of events I had entered that year...
Over time I made some tweaks, getting rid of the high hands (they just made my head poke up like a meerkat to see where I was going), and procuring some race wheels.
As the world finally started to open up again and neared the whole having to actually drag myself around a long distance tri thing, I treated the bike to a set of Aerocoach extensions
And having successfully dragged myself round Ironman Barcelona, I rewarded it with a nice Zipp TT crank, for no other reason than that it looked cool.
That's where I'm up to with TT rigs at the moment. The PX is an interesting beast. Extremely heavy (2kg heavier than my winter bike with its mudguards on), but also extremely stiff through the BB and very comfortable on long rides. On the raw TT bikes you knew you were going quickly, everything felt fast and on edge. This feels (golf club alert...) like some sort of posh executive saloon - quiet, comfortable, then you look down at the speedo and see you're going rather quicker than you thought.