Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

Well done scherrit and Mal for the support too. Are you officially Team Hippy now? Do you get embroidered polo shirts and the opportunity to yell into his ear via radio?

What about those lick and stick tattoos?

I bark orders, they tell me to shut up and keep riding.

There is now you lazy bastard.

I don't believe in collaboration. I believe in delegation.

Not too close I hope. Not in a skin suit.

Mmmm a 24 hour old skinsuit too..

I thought you'd do a good ride, Hippy, but you've exceeded my expectations.

I know how it feels to get to the end of a 12, but to do 240 miles and then go on immediately to do another 240 is beyond what I can imagine.

I was bang on 250mi after 12 hours which is just under what I did for the 12hr I did last year (albeit in worse conditions). I reckon I might have a crack at our club 12hr record too - 273mi / 439k / 36.6kph. I thought 500mi was an impossible target but I reckon that's doable as well, I just need to deal with the dawn better and spend less time off the bike.

Assuming you're actually trying. Just think what you could achieve if you gave it a bit of effort.

Not my style though is it?

Can you uncurl your fingers, hippy?

My post count isn't so high this year..

Yeah - but there is always the Hippy-bot.

Hats off to you Hippy, impressive stuff. Looking forward to the write up on your blog.

My post count isn't so high this year..

You could have tweeted from the ride.

First time installing, positioning and using extension bars. some guidence or comments on where i might be going wrong or general rules to get them right please!

obviously i need to tape, and i will shift extensions forward more..

You don't need to tape, extra weight! And I would tilt the base bar up slightly, it will likely be more comfy.

obviously i need to tape

No you don't

Tri bar positioning is a dark art. You need to have good control, comfort, power generation and aerodynamics. Unfortunately, that's 4 parameters which need 4 different positions. Typically, you have 5 degrees of freedom to play with at both the elbow cups and the hand grips (x,y,z,yaw and pitch - roll is irrelevant) Taking just the xyz positioning, you have a range of about 100mm which needs refining in maximum steps of 5mm, giving approximately 64,000,000 possible combinations before you start worrying about wrist angle. One of these will be right for the speed you're doing now, but it will be wrong for the speed you end up doing after you've optimised your tri bars, and whatever you end up with this year will be wrong again next year if you develop at all, because you'll a: be going faster, making it worth sacrificing more W for every CdA gain, and b: adapt to the position which will allow you to move to a more radical one while achieving at least as much comfort and control as you had when you first started. Welcome to our world.

I feel sorry for the few that got closer..

Poor Wayne

Hats off to you Hippy, impressive stuff. Looking forward to the write up on your blog.

It could be a while. Motivation to document what was a fairly well-planned and so uneventful ride is a bit lacking. I have started.

Here's the CTT report.
http://www.ctt.org.uk/Home/tabid/36/itemid/3124/Default.aspx

"looking the freshest of the top three" #makingitlookeasy

You could have tweeted from the ride.

Tried to get Mal to do that. In the end I think Scherrit was phoning through distances to BDW who was posting 'em.

At least you found some way to share it.

2012 Mersey Roads 24hr

Lovely ride report. A pleasure to read.

Day off work today to shave, get hair cut

Marginal gains.

2012 Mersey Roads 24hr

Latex tubes in a 24? How was your tyre pressure at the finish?

Massve congrats on the 24 podium hippy! Huge respect

Latex tubes in a 24? How was your tyre pressure at the finish?

Fine. I think Scherrit might have added air to them while I stopped for the first light change. That was about a 15min stop so he'd have had time.

Marginal gains.

Tops mentioned it in his book and I thought - why not?

Plus there's less facial hair to fill with dribbled gels, etc.

That's an awesome achievement and a great write up- I loved this "The cheers during the day from Prees roundabout were great but the wave of cheering and cowbells, people calling my name at the HQ on the Finishing Circuit were awesome - my wattage would double every time I rode through there."

Chapeau sir.

I think Scherrit might have added air to them while I stopped for the first light change.

23h since I pumped mine for racing last night, and they are definitely ridable but in the marginal gains business I wondered whether the 1bar pressure drop might negate the gain from using latex. AFM tests start at 120psi and go up, so not really a useful guide to what happens when tyres go soft. What was your starting pressure?