Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

Skinsuit appears to be worth it, knocked 50 seconds off tonight, down to 24.32 in torrential conditions. Upgrades since my last TT work out at 84p/second :)

Have you emptied the water out of your frame yet? I tipped about ½ a pint out of mine when I go home.

Just went and did it... wow that was a lot. Glad I didn't leave that sitting around my bb.

Back when he used to ride 12s, I believe Dr Hutch used to lower his bars for longer distances, buying some CdA at the expense of power since his metabolism was never going to sustain 50 power for 12 hours anyway.

I can adjust lots of things and barely notice the change but as soon as I go lower with the frontend I really have to be careful adapting to it otherwise my lower back and glutes epic fail. This years's first 100 was an example of that. I've dropped my bars another 5mm and will try that in the 50 coming up (even though I've ridden a 50 with the bars a lot lower than currently).

I can't drop the silly 30deg rise stem any more by removing spacers so I'll have to put the original stem back on (maybe 10deg and longer?) and add spacers back. Again it will probably require some adaptation which I'm not sure I can fit in.

Can't you flip it and add spacers? Or would that be too low?

Made a quick comparison of the stems, 30deg rise and drop compared to 10deg rise and drop - reach comparison on vertical line and bar height on horizontal line.

The reach looks fine for the flipped 30* stem but the drop in bar height might be a bit too much depending on how many spacers you have above it at the moment. The 10* stem looks closer to current bar height but reach would be a fair bit longer where it's straighter. Bear in mind these are pure estimates - not seen your current setup/what length stems you have etc.

Looks like a 17* stem would work if the flipped 30* is too low.

Wow, all that effort and you could have just used this handy online tool:
http://alex.phred.org/stemchart/Default.aspx

down to 24.42

http://www.readingcyclingclub.com/node/740
Winning time seems to have been corrected by 10s too. Can't blame the TK for some arithmetic errors while fighting to keep the recording sheet dry!

Ah well, still happy with that

^^^ It took at least three or four minutes aswell! That one looks good though, thanks for that.

Can't you flip it and add spacers? Or would that be too low?

Too low. I need to go back to the original stem.

Originally it was run like this

The original stem is 80mm/10deg. There's about 35mm of spacers currently on top of the stem.

That is one ugly bike.

That is one National Championship medal winning bike.

ftfy

This is hardly elegant, but it clearly works:

That is one ugly bike.

Matches its owner.

That was just a pic with some random bits on when I first got it. This is Mersey Roads:

This is hardly elegant, but it clearly works:

I think Wilko broke that one. But it did some heavy work..

He rode this custom Dolan at the 2011 24:

I notice a certain similarity in build between Wilko and hippy, although Wilko is fatter.

#allmuscle

Went for my first proper timed 10 miler in a while tonight, ended up doing it in 26:20 ,which was about 2-3 minutes quicker than i was expecting! Not a bad starting point for me, though I know i've sort of missed the boat for this year.

Managed a 23:48 tonight. Warm with hardly any wind, could have gone faster had hardly any time to warm up.
Spreadsheet updated - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmiFZ3L-H5pRdDZXMTVkcXJaZ2VyOEpHSjlsemdvZFE#gid=0

Oxonian 50 today. 1:56:55 for 3rd place. Winner was 1:53:something.

I think you need to start covering your marginal gains

I think I need to work out why my left leg doesn't get enough blood flow.

Probably a saddle issue- get Ed to look at your sit-bones.

If you feel something cold, it's his stethoscope.