Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

How does your saddle height (centre off BB to centre of saddle along the line of the seat tube) compare between your TT bikes & your normal road bikes?

Exactly the same on mine, but...

You can't do bike fitting on the internet

Go and ride your current position in anger on a set course of at least 5 miles. Time it. Repeat in a few days' time with your saddle raised 1cm. Report back…

Smash it down Jamaica road tomorrow, put saddle up 1cm, repeat.

doesn't matter where I put the saddle...I always end up perched on the nose!

And check.

I'm going to, just maybe, try riding it away from traffic for a bit.

Bok.

Rode the Stevenage CC 10 last night. 2 minutes faster then my last ride on the course a couple of months ago. 90" fixed, no aero kit and a 27.42 got me wthin 3 minutes of the winner (it is as those times suggest a grim course). May sort tri bars out for next weeks event and need to find an event on a half decent course before the year is out to see just what I can do.

I finally got myself to a TT - the final Bexley Wednesday 10 of the year. A surprise familiar face in the form of Sam and an expected one in the form of hyperbole. I think I've been bitten by the bug now, really should have started earlier in the year...

So many caveats! It was rather gusty, no aero bars and I was on the hoods because the 808 on the front felt too hairy in the drops, I couldn't get in to my 11 for the blast back, I messed up the only two turns and paced it wrongly because I got carried away catching my minute-man on the hill up to the turn.
That aside, my GPS reported a 24.10, which was 10 seconds slower than a nice round number. So that drives me mad.

I was on the hoods because the 808 on the front felt too hairy in the drops

This seems arse-backwards, I'd always go to the drop for more stability. YMMV.

Anyway, the obvious solution is to spend a shed load of cash upgrading to 808 Firecrests, they are supposed to be more stable and generate forward thrust in some crosswind conditions (from about 13° to 22° yaw, pretty impressive), apparently the first non-disc wheel to do so in Tour mag's independent testing (HED claim negative drag for the Stinger 9 in their own tests).

Great first TT time, Tom.

Very windy out there tonight, head and/or side wind all the way to the turn. I borrowed my brothers Omega for the night, only checked the sadle height. The saddle was tipped so far downwards that I kept sliding right off the front every 30 secs or so. And like Tom I also couldn't drop it into the 11. Warmed up with a deep section front wheel (102mm), but was too windy for me so switched to a standard rim.

Anyway, enough of the excuses. I clocked 25.03. 1 sec off my best ever TT to date (I am 37 but still fairly new to the TT game), but 2 mins quicker than over the same course 4 weeks ago. But to be fair that day I'd ridden to London from almost Maidstone, worked a full day, then ridden back out of town to the TT. Not the best prep.

Any ideas how JAMIE got on tonight?

Sorry I didn't come up to the start Tom, ended up having to go and see my brother.

JAMIE ended up doing other things too. A shame, would have been good to have him out there.

So many caveats! It was rather gusty, no aero bars and I was on the hoods because the 808 on the front felt too hairy in the drops, I couldn't get in to my 11 for the blast back, I messed up the only two turns and paced it wrongly because I got carried away catching my minute-man on the hill up to the turn.
That aside, my GPS reported a 24.10, which was 10 seconds slower than a nice round number. So that drives me mad.

Well done Tom, that's a good time. I am sure you will drop another minute or two next time.
Did you ask the 'official' time at the end? Official time < Garmin time normally, so you might have sub 24 :)

I rode mine well today and pleased with the result. 25.18 which is 31sec slower than my PB but it was very windy today.
Road bike, on the drops, shallow rims.

went to my first proper actual competitive TT last night.
An 8mile ride there, perfect warm up, bit rainy though, the sign-up time came, and went, nobody there! According to the local bike forum/TT club there was about 25 people supposed to turn up + timing crew, but no-one! Was in the right place according to website calender and right time, guess the rain kept people indoors lol.
Got back on bike, rode to sainsburies, got cake, rode home, ate cake. I definitely won at cake eating.

Great first TT time, Tom.

Warmed up with a deep section front wheel (102mm), but was too windy for me so switched to a standard rim.

Not sure a 102mm rim would be legal in any event (presuming its an event under CTT regs).

My mistake. It's a 101mm rear, but an 82mm front.

Just thought I'd look up the rule.

Deep section rims, tri-spoke and wheels of a similar design may be used. The front wheel must have at least 45% of the surface area open.

The PX 101 is a legal front wheel, they deliberately designed it to be as deep as the regulation permits. The 108mm deep Zipp 1080 isn't CTT legal.

The OP mentioned a 102mm rim.

Yeah, but it was a typo, he haz PX82/101 combo.

So young Tom, what did you have on the front last night.....

...the 808 on the front felt too hairy...

perfectly legit :)

Ooof. Denied!!

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Cool... rubberised skin suit! Is that because of the bad weather or because they think that rubber makes you slipery-er?

went to my first proper actual competitive TT last night.
An 8mile ride there, perfect warm up, bit rainy though, the sign-up time came, and went, nobody there! According to the local bike forum/TT club there was about 25 people supposed to turn up + timing crew, but no-one! Was in the right place according to website calender and right time, guess the rain kept people indoors lol.
Got back on bike, rode to sainsburies, got cake, rode home, ate cake. I definitely won at cake eating.

How rainy? Seems odd that it would just be cancelled though?