Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

currently the heaviest I've ever been

F11/10 is calling you :)

Best of luck for tomorrow @skinny - smash it!

Thanks. Will do my best!

Will do, I think you'll be rolling back to hq as I start so you might have to hang about! #midpackchopperstarttime.

And good luck tomorrow.

Got a place very late last night at LVCC. First proper '25 so really excited. I asked in my LBS what the course was like and was told "try not to go to Cambridge, it's the wrong way".

Pre-emptive shout out to @tommmmmmm who is kindly giving me a lift up.

It's the e2/25.

It's rapid.

I'm aiming to end quicker than double Alex Dowsett's CR.

Just stay left and you'll be fine. A Marshall will probably be right at the start of the slip road that you need to come off at the half way point, it's not far after a petrol station.

If not at the beginning he'll be at the apex. Just keep your head up and you'll be fine. Enjoy the final 5 miles!

Just finished E2/25, had to sit up for the last 15km as my shoulders went (second week running)! Seems like a quick day, was really fast coming back.

112" and I reckon at full bore in the aerobars I'd have spun out loads over the final 10km.

That must have been you I spoke to at the start, blue Cervelo?

I had a nightmare day. First of all, arrived 15 mins before my start time due to traffic, with my bike still in bits, @onyerbike did a great job putting it together but I still started 39 minutes late.

10 minutes in, my left armrest had slipped so much that I started to get cramp in my shoulder trying to stay on the aero bars, and had to finish the ride on the base bars.

Official time 1:46, actual time 1:07, I'm just glad to have finished because despite the beautiful conditions, I was that close to sacking it off.

I've got the same aero bars as @hippy and had the same problem he described a few pages back - I'm sure the pads are torqued to about 8NM but are still slipping. Might just get some of the all in one things.

I've got the same aero bars as @hippy and had the same problem he described a few pages back

If you don't want to change the mounting width of the pads, a very simple bridge should fix it. Not sure whether hippy has gone any further with the idea, if he hasn't you could both save a few quid by getting two made at the same time.

I'd be up for that. Would it be possible to get a Garmin mount built into it, or make it 31.8mm in between the bars so you could mount a Garmin there?

Would it be possible to get a Garmin mount built into it

Anything is possible, Hippy wanted accommodation for a QuadLock, any savings from bulk buying would be contingent on you both wanting the same thing. My tarty Ventus bridge accommodates a a Garmin mount where there isn't room to twist the Garmin between the bars, but a simpler and much cheaper solution would work if there's space to do the twist rather than having a rotating mount.

4th. Maybe 5th at bucs 10.

Just not good enough. Ah well, what can you do (try again next year)!

B10/35 on the A14. Fast or not fast? Looks like a flat DC course, and my 10 mile PB is starting to look embarrassing.

Still bloody good, at least there were no cobbles.

Thanks. Yeah it's alright, I thought I'd be able to make more power. But even having spend all my time training in position, I can't do more watts than I did last year, when I hadn't trained in position at all.

I wonder if it's time to re asses my position and see if I can find one where I can make more power, but also be aero.

Bad luck, but there is some serious competition at bucs. That's one of my local 10s so I'd be interested to know what you did on there.

19:52. Was won with 19:29.

Was a South Westerly wind, not huge but not small. So a cross head on the way back.

Still, a very impressive for the course. And yeah that's the prevailing wind and it can be a proper slog on the return leg.

We'll done! That's probably 2 or 3 minutes faster than my pb on there and that was a proper float day.

I had a great day on the E2/25 slip road. Not a single person missed it.
@tommmmmmm I did wonder how a broken arm rest could cost you that much time, but the late start explains it.

I got a bit of sunburn. If I do it again I'm definitely taking a few cans with me.

Nice one for marshalling, good day for it at least.
Head there was a 46?

Cheers @ewanmac

Was on the E2/25 today as well. What seemed like great conditions didnt really make much difference to me..did 54:02 to go with my 54:06 and 54:12. Consistent. A few people i'm normally head to head with on local courses did a fair bit better. I kinda went too hard on the A14. Spent most of the headwind section of A11 struggling (where was the traffic to pull me along? the vehicles that did pass were all far too well behaved)and had a rubbish turn at the roundabout. After that it was a fairly speedy ride back.

@skinny there was a 45.20 apparently, by 'Dewey'