Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

Well, I wasn't too happy with 1:00.04 but thinking about it..

4 measely seconds!! What a shitter. But congrats on new pb.

Yeah, I'm going to start using Time vs. Blood Alcohol Content to rate performance. It's more accurate than power.

London Dynamo won yesterday's Hounslow & District Wheelers 10 team prize yesterday with a field of one bloke and two girls.....Mrs S (22.24) is very pleased with herself!

The first Richmond Park time trial on Sunday 30th June has plenty of space left if anyone wants to have a crack at it. pm me if you want to enter and need help with the entry process.

There were loads of fast women at the Hounslow apparently, presumably warming up for the national.

For the second year there will be a £25 prize for the fastest ride on fixed in this event.

Last year it was won by Andrew Phipps (Royal Navy & Royal Marines CA) with the fast time of 4.18.51.

Don't let this put you off - I doubt that anything as fast as this will be done for some time. A better mark to think about would be my own effort in 2006 when I did 4.41.09 - some of you must be capable of beating that. To ensure there is at least one rider on fixed I hope to ride myself, but being four years older will not be an advantage at my great age.

The course is on the A31 between Farnham and Alton (H 100/8). It is reasonably suitable for single gear with no fast descents or impossible climbs ( the course no longer goes over the Four Marks hill). I used a 90" gear (51 x15) last time and it worked for me.

The event is on Sunday 4th July, and the closing date for entries is 21st June.

I'm going to enter that, missed it last year and had to grovel around the SCCU instead....

@Wilo Don't you mean the 13th June? For the first Richmond TT?

I've entered! anyone else on here? Hippy? Clubman? Md_CC tester?

There is no fixed wheel interest in the 10 report but I am posting it because it deals with the excellent ride by Mrs S., often mentioned in this thread.

I didn't ride myself since I was saving my strength for the Norlond 50 the following morning - sadly the guardian Spirit of the F1 was in a bad temper and caused a rising SW wind to bring all but the strongest riders (that is Mr. Cammish) almost to a standstill on the last 11 mile leg. I used 90" fixed, which was ok until the last turn. There were two others on fixed and my 2.15.24 was faster than at least one of them. I didn't manage to discover what the third one did.

Hounslow and District Wheelers open 10 Mile Time Trial (15.5.2010)

Wouter Sybrandy (Sigma Sport) stooped to conquer in the Hounslow and District Wheelers 10 last Saturday when he beat a good field of riders including former champion Richard Prebble. His time was 20 minutes 5 seconds. Only runner up Aran Stanton (V.C. St. Raphael) finished within a minute of him.

Wouter, who recently became a full time professional for Sigma Sport, can rightly be described as an international roadman and his ‘preparation’ for Saturday’s event included a recent continental trip on which he rode the single day classics Paris - Troyes (106 miles) and the Tour du Finisterre (125 miles), the latter having most of the top French pro teams competing - Francaise des Jeux, AG2R, Cofidis etc. Although this year has not yet brought any big successes in road racing his time trial results have shown great promise: he has already won a round of the prestigious Rudy Project series.

These results support the maxim that if you want to do well in time trials, you should ride road races!

Best placed of the Hounslow riders was Nic Stagg with a fast 21.24 for ninth place. He was followed by Rob Gilmour with 22.24 (16th) and Paul Innes 23.11 (24th). These times would often have been good enough to collect the team prize, but the home club’s riders were overwhelmed by outstanding performances from two ladies in the London Dynamo - Rebecca Slack 22.24 and Ruth Turner 22.42, which with the support of their male team leader James Stratton who recorded 21.09 for third place gave them an aggregate time of 1.06.15 against the Hounslow’s 1.06.59.

Another Hounslow ride worthy of mention come from Loz Wintergold, who in spite of the stress of being the organiser of the event managed to record the respectable time of 23.42.

However it was altogether a good day for the ladies as Julia Shaw (Utag Yamaha) recorded an excellent 21.19 which gave her seventh place out of total of sixty nine mostly male finishers. Julia is the reigning women’s 10 champion.

The promoting club does have one consolation from the day: Wouter Sybrandy started his racing career in England with the Hounslow and still retains second claim membership.

Result:

m
Pos. Rider Club Time Vet + or -

1. W. Sybrandy Sigma Sport 20:05
   
2. A. Stanton VC St Raphael 20:25 +05:17
   
3. J. Stratton London Dynamo 21:09
   
4. T. Pettinger Sri Chinmoy Cycling Team 21:10
   
5. G. Martinez VC Meuden 21:14
   
6. R. Prebble Motorpoint-Marshalls Pasta RT 21:18 +04:36
   
7. J. Shaw (W) Utag Yamaha.com 21:19 +06:40
   
8. P. Burton Velocity Bikes CC 21:23 +04:19
   
9. N. Stagg Hounslow & District Wheelers 21:24
   
10. J. Storms Kingston Wheelers 21:41 +04:13
    
11. J. Glaysher A3CRG 21:43
    
12. P. Ember Kingston Wheelers 21:49
    
13. I. Burgess In Gear Quickvit Trainsharp 21:50 +05:17
    
14. G. Nienaber Farnham RC 22:05 +05:54
    
15. A. MacInnes RAF CA 22:11 +04:19
    16= R. Gilmour Hounslow & District Wheelers 22:24 +06:56
    16= R. Slack (W) London Dynamo 22:24 +05:22
    
16. A. Smith Farnham RC 22:32 +02:58
    
17. L. Walkling (W) PB Science 22:40 +05:19
    
18. R. Turner (W) London Dynamo 22:42
    

@Wilo Don't you mean the 13th June? For the first Richmond TT?

I've entered! anyone else on here? Hippy? Clubman? Md_CC tester?

Thanks for asking, but it's not for me. I may have the skinny physique of a *grimpeur *but I no longer have the necessary youthfulness. I need somewhere flattish where I can roll along, so I've got the Finsbury Park 50 pencilled in for the 13th June.

Hope you do a good ride.

I'm going to enter that, missed it last year and had to grovel around the SCCU instead....

A wise decision. The SCCU winners time would only have got him 11th place in last years Hounslow event, which suggests the course is faster.

HDW 100 top ten in 2009:

             NIK Bowdler             
             Farn' & Camberley CC             
             03:43:23      

             Aran Stanton             
             VC St Raphael 
             03:52:13 

             Paul Holdsworth             
             Hounslow & Dist Whs             
             03:52:56 

             Paul Dring             
             Echelon-Spiuk             
             03:53:34 

             Colin McDermott             
             Festival RC             
             03:59:51 

             Keith Garbutt             
             South Western RC             
             04:00:47 

             David Sheperd             
             LipYiook Cycles RT 
             04:01:43             

             Dave Pickering             
             Bourrunouth Jub Whs             
             04:02:54 

             Simon Donne             
             Epsom CC             
             04:03:44 

             Phil Ember             
             Kingston Whs             
             04:06:00

A wise decision. The SCCU winners time would only have got him 11th place in last years Hounslow event, which suggests the course is faster.

HDW 100 top ten in 2009:

             NIK Bowdler             
             Farn' & Camberley CC             
             03:43:23      

             Aran Stanton             
             VC St Raphael 
             03:52:13 

             Paul Holdsworth             
             Hounslow & Dist Whs             
             03:52:56 

             Paul Dring             
             Echelon-Spiuk             
             03:53:34 

             Colin McDermott             
             Festival RC             
             03:59:51 

             Keith Garbutt             
             South Western RC             
             04:00:47 

             David Sheperd             
             LipYiook Cycles RT 
             04:01:43             

             Dave Pickering             
             Bourrunouth Jub Whs             
             04:02:54 

             Simon Donne             
             Epsom CC             
             04:03:44 

             Phil Ember             
             Kingston Whs             
             04:06:00

Thanks Clubman, I don't know if you've ridden the SCCU but the traffic lights on the course don't help either!

Thanks Clubman, I don't know if you've ridden the SCCU but the traffic lights on the course don't help either!

I have started an event on that course, but never finished one. I wasn't feeling great and getting stopped at the lights was the last straw.

I've got the Finsbury Park 50 pencilled in for the 13th June.

Ditto, or maybe the Reading CC 50, haven't decided yet.

7th place for Mrs S today in the National 10 - have just spoken to her, and she's pretty chuffed, particularly as they won the team prize! Meanwhile, I'm in the paddling pool with the kids... :-0

It is interesting to look at the positions of Hutch and Shaw, the two outstanding riders at the National 10 - both are very similar, and both are very different to the other leading lights:

Notice how both have their arms angled up, almost parallel to the plane of their torsos. Neither are particularly flat or low. Both appear slightly forward. And on Sunday both won by a country mile.

As you will be aware (so this is for the benefit of TT newbies coming here for ideas and advice), there is a lot more to being fast than looking like somebody who is fast. Even after you've positioned the legs and torso, it turns out that arm position is highly rider-specific when it comes to optimising the balance between power and aerodynamics. You'll see world class riders who have been rigorously fitted with the benefit of the best technicians in the business with their hands anywhere from high to low and their elbows anywhere from nearly touching to wide apart, even among riders on the same team fitted by the same team of physiologists and aerodynamicists.

Today's 25

Thanks to cheatbike© I took about 1.30 off my PB for this course even when down by 30W. It was pretty damn windy today though - windy enough to remind me about the 80mm front rim anyway!

pretty damn windy today

Indeed, just been for a test drive on some HED 3s and was all over the road.

Thinking sbout selling my Sram S60's if anyone is interested, come with Veloflex tyres but no cassette

I need a Zipp 808 or SRAM SS80 rear clincher rim. Anyone?

Mrs S could do with a Zipp 808 tubular front or a HED Stinger 9....

I could do with my busted shoulder healing :-(

@Willo shit, what happened????

I crashed out at Palace three weeks ago and bust the collar bone. My fault entirely, losing my back wheel on a damp patch going through a corner.

@Willo Thats terrible, still least it's just a collar bone. Guess i'll see you at Richmond Park on the 13th?

This fat old git finally got under 25mins :)
I did a 24:58 on the West Kingsdown Q10/26, on my Graham Weigh with a 90.5" gear tonight, I was so f**ked at the end I couldn't even shout my number out just coughed my lungs up :D