Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

Sam, yeah. It's a pain but you both fill out a form, and each of you add the others name to the Team section (just below the Event Info)

Nice one, thanks!

Club. I think anyone can enter.

Cool, Hillingdon is only down the road so I may have my first go at a TT this year.

Try doing that now (white line fever) and you'll have at least 7 vehicles drive over the top of you before they even realise they've hit something.

It was quite hard to do a 49 without the aid of clip on bars. I believe he did tape down his shoe laces though.

On the subject of TT with out aero bars, yesterday Lars Boom won the Tour of the Med TT on a "fast and flat" course, his bike looked like this:

No disc, no aero bars despite his competitors looking like this:

He only rode the standard road bike for the last 4 kms, which was uphill. The first 20 kms he did on his time trial bike.

for serious? I just read the cycling news article which was not exactly exhaustive.

Check out Theo Bos' twitter feed - he mentions Boom's cyclocross bike change.

Meaning the technique, not changing from one cross bike to another.

The Dutch specialist against the clock completed the 24km course - which crossed the narrow causeway between the Mediterranean and the Étang de Thau inland lake, before finishing atop the short, steep climb - in a time of 32 minutes and 35 seconds, beating former Belgian time trial champion Maxim Monfort (RadioShack-Leopard) by 22 seconds.

As a former cyclocross World champion, Boom was able to perform a 'cross-style bike change at the foot of the final climb; jumping from his time trial bike onto a normal road bike, held out by a team mechanic.

But mainly I made the difference with changing bikes. Climbing went a lot faster than on the time trial bike.

Read more: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/13891/Tour-Mediterraneen-Lars-Boom-powers-into-the-lead-in-stage-two-time-trial.aspx#ixzz2KIc3PIgS

Did you all see the bike change by the french cyclist at the worlds this year?

That was great! :)

I had to watch it 4 times to actually see it.
And still then it was a mindfuck.

I would never had believed it if it hadn't been a rider like Boom. His cyclocross skillz and all.

Did you all see the bike change by the french cyclist at the worlds this year?

This one? http://vimeo.com/49997914

Yup. That's the one.

Fuck me... never seen that before, never seen anything like it... not sure I actually saw it, better watch it again.

That has just blown my mind

Why? It's standard practise in cyclocross (admittedly not wearing road shoes and cleats).

Post a vid of a change happening that fast in a cross race then.

If it's so regular in cross I guess simply more people saw this one.

It happens that fast in cross week in, week out as at a certain level it's standard practice to change bikes every lap when the conditions are bad.

Like this;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eCl1rKlEJo

No peloton.. not as good.

Agreed, but it's common and therefore not mind blowing.

It happens in 'cross so by definition that means it isn't common.