Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

I've raced the last three 12hrs on Corsa Speeds and haven't had an issue (other than being fucking bumpy - UK roads are shit). I used to choose more durable tyres when racing 24hrs but for events now I'm going to run the fastest shit I can afford.

It's a TT - your race is over if you flat and your race is pointless if you don't go as fast as possible.

You've got lucky on those tyres. A guy flew from Oz to do worlds last year and punctured a km in on them. Going as fast as possible at all costs worked out well.

Or did he have worn tyres, or crappy rim tape, or the wrong pressure or rode straight into a pot hole/glass?

I think I've DNFd two races in my entire life because of a flat tyre - one was a crit in Oz and a 50mi TT.

Sure, some courses dictate more reliable tyre choice but blaming a specific model of tyre (excluding the whole lot having a manufacturing defect) is almost never correct.

is almost never correct.

I'm this case, I am :)

is almost never correct.

In this case, I am :)

I'm this case, I am :)

Yes, but not in this case. :)

I mean, you're not. Worlds of what? What was the course like? How much time did they lose? Who picked the tyres and accepted the risk - presumably the rider? What was the puncture? How many other racers used the same tyres without issue? Your n=1 one doesn't prove anything, in the same way mine doesn't.

I'm not racing to win, I'm racing for distance/time so there's zero reason to use something slower. If you're riding 25s every week then missing one due to a flat is probably no biggie. On the other hand, if you've flown around the world to race something important and not properly considered the course and tyre requirements, well, that's not the tyre's fault.

Well I’ve got a paper thin tub on the front and decent puncture protection on the back. Best of both worlds? Lol.

If I puncture the front I can just wheelie round the rest, innit.

Ah yeah the usual childish "you are wrong hippy is right" stance, I shouldn't have indulged but I'll finish.

Your opinion that a race tyre with no puncture protection is fine for all racing including racing long time trials on crap rides is your own; I am correct in not blaming the tyre but the user choice. Which you then weirdly agreed with. I maintain the watt saving at all costs when riding in on crap roads doesn't make sense.

In any case, I chose the STR over the TT today as I needed to be able to ride multiple non-race journeys prior to the start line. The 3w penalty I was confident wouldn't make a difference, didn't. And fwiw, I was racing for the win, I couldn't care less about my time on the course.

Gratuitous amount of leg on show, but I seem to have made some positional improvements with the tiny bit of tinkering time I had earlier. Now for the 12 hour nightshift before the TT tomorrow.
Untested alterations and disrupted sleep - a surely winning combo for a good performance tomorrow no doubt.

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bike fitting in socks, and with a flat front tyre….. lolz….

Arms look like you could now do a longer stem, but does look better (as far as one can judge!)

There’s 120psi in there! No excuse for the socks though. The extent to which I was short for time doing the bike fit cannot be understated, lol.

Fantastic.

Go well @Nef

Ah yeah the usual, It's a bike forum and I'm so serious, I think I know better and must prove it with some second-hand anecdote.

All racing, no, this is a TT thread and we were talking about 25s and my experience with tyres I was offering to someone racing 25s. You claim the tyres are crap because you "talked to someone in some event that they punctured in" with zero explanation of the nature of the event or puncture and I claim they are good because they're fast and I've had no issues with them in the multiple British TT events I've used them in. I'll let the recipient decide if they want to use them for their events.

Your 3W penalty is only at certain pressures and per tyre, btw. This is the TT thread and we wouldn't want any bad maths misinforming anyone's tyre choice.

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57:49 - happy with that! Will write it up when I’m less bollocksed.

Good effort, mate!

Well done!

PB?

That's a great time on a bike you have not trained on! 👍

Top banana! Good ride

By almost 3 minutes! Admittedly only my 4th TT and only my second on a TT bike, and my first on a fast course with favourable conditions. So I have a feeling I won’t break it for a while. Chuffed tho. I now need to take everything out the car, put it all away, have a wash, have a nap, and then go do another 12 hour night shift, lol. Sleep is overrated. . .

Thanks everyone!

There was a bloke there who broke a lifetime pb of his (that he’d had since the mid 90s). I think he said he’d done a 50:01 before and he went 49.17 today! Many others with PBs too - so something was in our favour.

Float day. You'll be chasing another one for the next 10 years :D

Good ride! What course were you on?

Ganna and Tarling looked to both be running Conti GP on Sat one punctured one didn't. Is Tarling pissed that he just got unlucky or blaming himself that he didn't bring the Pasela protites?