Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

If I was to use clip-ons, I'd use the beaut ahead system to slam my bars and then fiddle with the saddle.
All this messing about with my road bike setup means the reality is: 1. I'm not going to touch my road bike. 2. I may build a TT specific bike at some point.

Quite right.

Conventional road bikes are not really suitable for time trials. This might be a problem if we weren't keen on fixed wheel bikes, which are a cheap way of being highly competitive (Boardman, O'Bree and others).