Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

The standard's 45min, isn't it?

Or do you mean the 16.48 (I think) based on the fact I've only ridden one 25 since Jan '09?

On second thoughts, I think it's all a bit before my time :)

In the olden days, Association event were nearly always exclusively for affiliated clubs, but that is much less common these days since most organisers are glad of the extra entries, given that many events don't attract full fields. If it has an A next to it in the handbook, it's for members of affiliated clubs only. If it is run by an Association and doesn't have an A but does have SC, chances are that the Special Conditions are that preference will be given to members of affiliated clubs in the event of excess entries. If in doubt, most promoters have their phone numbers in the handbook so you can always check when the book comes out and you're planning your season.

Everytime I think that maybe I'd like to find out a bit more about TT I read paragraphs like this and just think "life's too short".

Oddly enough, while Time Trials officialdom seems like the most hidebound and nerdy thing imaginable, the rules are well developed over more than half a century of practice, and work well to make time trialling the easiest thing to get started in of all the cycling disciplines, both as a competitor and as a promoter.

It's not that hard really. You just need to be in a club with a few members that participate. Then the shroud of mystery lifts. I think many casual TT riders end up doing the same handful of events each year - absolute time is one thing, but mostly it's about your course-specific PBs.

On second thoughts, I think it's all a bit before my time :)

If you don't know your standard off the top of your head, you're obviously still a mere youth (or one of the >80 y.o. riders whose memory is failing faster than their legs).

@Hippy Don't do a 12/24 race you'll wake up dead

Sounds like most days..

But if you do, do the 24 first. After doing a 24, a 12 will look like a walk in the park, but after doing your first 12, a 24 will seem like an impossible dream.

I don't have any support so a 24hr is probably a bit too much.
A 12hr might be doable without too much reliance on others, hence the interest.

Options:
CC Breckland B12/3 on 8th Aug
WCTTCA & LTTCA Champs D12/1 on 22nd Aug
ECCA (inc. VTTA Champs) E2/12 on 22nd Aug
Kent CA Q12 on 5th Sep

I don't have any support so a 24hr is probably a bit too much.

If you ride a 24, there should be plenty of takers from here to come out and laugh provide moral and practical support.

Who in their right mind would wander into the countryside to hand out bottles and food to some idiot riding for 24hrs? I guess there's always the likelihood I pack and throw my bike in a ditch, thereby allowing the 'helpers' to part it out on ebay and make some coin from the exercise.. ;)

Anyway, I think all the 24s are done now aren't they? I was thinking of getting the 12 done before I lost interest in the whole exercise.

If you ride a 24, there should be plenty of takers from here to come out and laugh provide moral and practical support.

Are you mad, looking after someone is harder work than riding!

I don't have any support so a 24hr is probably a bit too much.
A 12hr might be doable without too much reliance on others, hence the interest.

Options:
CC Breckland B12/3 on 8th Aug
WCTTCA & LTTCA Champs D12/1 on 22nd Aug
ECCA (inc. VTTA Champs) E2/12 on 22nd Aug
Kent CA Q12 on 5th Sep

You have probably missed the closing date for the CC Breckland?

There is a thread on the testers forum about riding 12's unsupported and general consensus is it is doable depending on the circuit.

Yeah, I'm not sure I could get my shit together that quick anyway.
This thread (http://www.timetriallingforum.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=48328) I guess?
Basically how I was going to do the 100. Leaving bottles by the side of the road. Decided to wear normal cycling kit instead and carry everything.

I wish more TTs had websites..
http://www.kca12hour.org.uk/

Breckland...............let's do it!

^ "You have probably missed the closing date for the CC Breckland?"

^ "You have probably missed the closing date for the CC Breckland?"

Actually if it was a standard closing date then they only closed yesterday. I reckon a quick phonecall would probably get you both in...

I set a course record today..

the "SCCU 100 + 6 miles riding in trainers on SPD-SLs" course record.

4:52 (I didn't even get DFL)

I have in front of me a Calleva Road Club handbook (for 1949), and I can inform you that your ride would once have given you that illustrious club's 100 record which you would have held until the 19th June 1932 when F.G. Heath did 4.49.49.

Seriously, I think that to get inside five hours, at a first attempt, with so much against you shows real promise. I can imagine the possibility of riding in non-cycling shoes, but then to keep going at any sort of speed after adding six miles to the distance would always have been beyond me. It is a good example of the sort of determination needed for the longer distances.
It can't have been a particularly fast day either, with only one rider getting inside four hours.

Since everyone improves with experience at any particular distance I don't believe you will need a great deal of luck to get inside 4.20 next year.

I've been a bit slow responding to this 'cos I've been away or a couple of days.

what crank lenghts do most of you race on?? i caught my foot on a turn yesterday on 172.5,

A little anecdote that had slipped my mind when I first responded to this q.

Some years ago a clubmate had two events to ride over a bank holiday weekend, a road race and a time trial. My friend is a good mechanic and a man who always likes a spotless presentation of himself when racing, so during the preceding week he dismantled both his TT and road bike, carefully polishing and checking as he reassembled them.

Over the weekend, against pretty strong opposition, he won both races.

It was only afterwards he realised he had muddled up the cranks and had put the 175 lh crank from the TT bike onto the road bike, and the 170 road crank onto the TT machine.

He tells me he hasn't worried overmuch about ideal crank lengths since then.

i think im going with 172.5 or 175 what ever comes along really, cant decide what tho, miche, dura ace or suginos........

Buy my 175mm C-Record https://www.lfgss.com/thread43096.html

tempted, are they 144??

MDCC, here's a question, what sort of fixed GI should I go for on a 10 mile flat TT? I was thinking around 80-85, but I have zero experience of riding fast fixed.

tempted, are they 144??

Yes.

MDCC, here's a question, what sort of fixed GI should I go for on a 10 mile flat TT? I was thinking around 80-85, but I have zero experience of riding fast fixed.

I just rode one tonight on 93" and did a 24:21, which is an average cadence of ~90rpm. YMMV, I know people who ride roughly the same speed as me on gears of up to 120"