Time trial bikes

You can get them direct from 3T or from http://www.i-ride.co.uk/, so unless you're in New Zealand, Australia seems like an odd place to shop. Bear in mind that if you want to use a rise other than 10/20/30/60, you'll need different length bolts.

I tried I-ride, and they said the 60mm risers were discontinued. Not quite sure why I never found the 3T small parts website - probably muppetry on my part.

[QUOTE=danstuff;3350771]This is my new TT bike:

Dat Chainring!

Dat Chainring!

Dis Chainring:

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This is my new TT bike:

lol.

This is a what a Cervelo with 60mm 3T risers is supposed to look like :-)

Saddlebag for +audax points :D

^^ Is it wrong that I've always lusted after those Zipp Chrono cranks?

I'd say no.

Totalcycling still have a couple, now just £849, do it!

Totalcycling still have a couple, now just £849, do it!

That's almost $1400

sometimes the fantasy is better than the reality.....

$1170 if you're shopping from outside the EU. If you'd wanted some, you should have got them from Glory Cycles when they were on close out there, I think I paid $699

Good thing is, in FL there's a shit ton of tridorks with way too much money who ride that shit for 3 triathlons and sell it at the end of the season. I'm haggling with a guy right now on a set of Rotor 3D+ TT cranks.

I bring you evolution, a bike per decade since the 70's!

From back in the day when 'aero' was a pair of Modolo Kronos and Cinelli M71s on an ultra short wheelbase frame, with carefully aligned QRs and a single ring.....

To one of the first lo-pros in Columbus Air, with brake below bottom bracket and gear cable through frame....

90's steel with disc and cobbled together tri bars.....

Carbon (pretty much) everything.... Yes, I know Hed discs are crap!

Buggered if I know how to show the pics other than as thumbnails, will someone please pm me!? (they're on my computer, not elsewhere)

There, now I've proved I'm ancient, but I suspect mdcc_tester is the same age, I've seen the pic with Aerospokes!

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I suspect mdcc_tester is the same age, I've seen the pic with Aerospokes!

Before the Spoks there was this:

Yep, we're the same vintage.... Weinmann 500 brake, Cinelli 64/42?, Kronos gear lever (poseur) and are those OMAS hubs? But, where's the 1R stem?

Ain't it great that we've got no slower (thanks to modern technology).........

Yep, we're the same vintage.... Weinmann 500 brake, Cinelli 64/42?, Kronos gear lever (poseur) and are those OMAS hubs? But, where's the 1R stem?.

Kronos gear lever was super flexy, adding even more vagueness to the shift, as though we needed it with friction shifts and antediluvian Campag-copy rear dérailleurs. Hubs are some oddity by Andrew Hague, Welsh rack and pannier guru. Bars and stem are ITM, barely perceptible aerofoil shape on the tops. Ishiwata 017 frame by Raymond Peters in Southampton (I could have had a Rotrax, what a fool I was back then!) Mavic Argent 10 rims, Wolber Piste tubs, Zeus New Racer RD with drillium cage, Regina 14-18 block, SR Super Custom cranks with Campag ring, SR Track pedals with plastic clips and Binda straps, Atax Polypro seat post, Selle Italia Turbo SL, Red-S plastic headset. I've never owned a 1R, my lo-pro went from a 1A to a 2A to a Grammo

Ain't it great that we've got no slower (thanks to modern technology).........

From the pix, I'd guess you're a little older than me, and I have got slower - my best 10 last year was a full 36s away from being an all time PB.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure that pic was taken on the A3 near Cobham. Anybody familiar with the road today will realise why it eventually became necessary to conduct traffic counts and ban courses which were too busy.

For vague gears, try the Huret Jubilee on the lo pro (but incredibly light), shift that with a Kronos lever!..... Record cranks, Royce 56 ring and Royce ti BB, OMAS ti hubs 28h Mavic GEL280 rims (guaranteed a trueing needed every race). Harry Perry frame actually made by Bill Philbrook, a true artist in steel, wish I still had it. 12/17 block in the mistaken belief I could push those gears up anything. Columbus branded pin and, yes, Turbo SL in white! Oh, and Dia Compe centre pully thingy brakes which didn't stop you but fitted under the BB and were marginally less suicidal than 500s. Anyway, the Cinelli M71s would kill you first!

At least modern kit works.......

Every time I ride past a crematorium, I wonder if I should just stop and wait.

12/17 block in the mistaken belief I could push those gears up anything

It's surprising what you can do when you don't have a choice. For a while, I used a 57t Campag ring and a DuraAce MF-7400 6-speed block with the 16,17 and 18 sprockets removed to save weight. Bottom gear of 57/15 was actually a touch lower than the 53/14 fixed I use now, and I have a lot more weight to push up the hills these days.

A joy to read anecdote-tech stuff of you and yours.

^Old buggers like me might as well reminisce, because every time I open my eyes in the morning is a fucking miracle!

It's got TT bars so I reckon someone was doing sub hour 25s on it back then. Not me though. Maybe if I got a rear disc...

I don't know what it is, but it looks like a bliss

^that BMC looks awesome other than the chain!

3 months on and my TT bike has changed a fair bit:

Absolutely fucking slammed (Matt Bottrill).