Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

Yay, TT season is nearly on us.

I would offer to be part of a three up team but my best time so far is 23 miles (37k) over 1.04.09 so i doubt I would be much use to anyone unless I start training now. However, I am pretty handy at drafting.

This seems a pretty respectable time to me.

Because:

1. If someone's best performance is over 23 miles this implies that the rider has not ridden many standard distance time trials and so is almost certain to improve rapidly with experience. If you are impressed by some old time triallist (possibly me) telling what his p.b. is for a 25, don't forget he has ridden dozens, maybe hundreds of events to achieve that personal. His best will have probably been done on a fast course (eg the E72 mentioned elsewhere in this thread), and on a 'float' day (eg just before a thunderstorm).
   
2. A 23 mile course is almost certainly not on a fast main road - it's probably on twisty, undulating lanes. This speed is roughly two and a half minutes a mile, so we're talking about a 25 inside 1h 10 minutes, on a tough course, on fixed.
   
   

Seldom Killer, you're too modest.