Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

New PB of 25.05 on the Q10/26 last Wednesday, riding 88" gear on a 27lb steel bike.
http://www.cycleclub-bexley.org.uk/evening_10s.html

First 25TT coming up soon.

First 25TT this morning on the Thanet RC 25 on the Q25/8 at Challock, rolling with some long drags I blew up a bit towards the end struggling to stay on top of the gear and did a 1:05:34

I'll have to go some to catch up with the fast boys.

Winner : Kevin Tye 53:16

My wife on behalf of London Dynamo is looking to organise a series of time trials in Richmond Park next year - the Royal Parks need to give permission for this to take place, and as part of that process it is likely that there will be a couple of pilot events in August. They will be early starts with first rider off at 6am and last at 7.00am. Distance a non-standard out and back 10 and a bit miles. Will avoid Broomfield Hill (the steep one) for anyone mad enough to ride it fixed! If any one wants details, pm me.

Details of the Richmond Park time trials here:

www.cyclingtimetrials.co.uk/Home/tabid/36/itemid/1418/Default.aspx

An early morning start, with two events on Sunday 9th August and Sunday 23rd August. It is the intention to have prizes for fixed gear riders.

Looks like a good initiative, though I'm not sure if it fits with my current schedule.

Could be interesting. Maybe I should get this TT machine built. :)

I got some porn calipers for it..

Very nice - perhaps you could let your Willesden buddies know.

On it

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I'm not sure if it fits with my current schedule.

You have a schedule?!

I just go out for a ride when i feel like it.

I got some porn calipers for it..

I hope you didn't just buy those, Planet X are knocking them out for £99 in lots of pretty colours

I bought them from Planet-X :P

The ones I have are black but they have a little red rocker.

You have a schedule?!

I just go out for a ride when i feel like it.

I mean it in the loosest sense. I'm vaguely thinking of targeting some Autumn events for which doing 10.4 mile TTs is a waste of the limited time I have for training. As far as time for riding, I can think of more fun things to do than go around Richmond Park at 6 in the morning.

Liar. No you can't.

This is my account of the event as written for the local papers - I hope it's interesting to forum members.

What's it got to do with fixed or single gear riding ? I can offer two connections - first PH's fixed riding has been reported here in the past (See: A Hard Day in January,The Hounslow Midsummer 25 in this thread, and A Hard Morning in February), and secondly although Paul started with standard multiple gearing he rode most of the second half of the day with only two gears. The course was almost dead flat, and many might draw the conclusion that fixed would have yielded a better result - at least there would have been no surprises in the gear cable department. Pictures should follow shortly.

An aggressive strategy aimed at victory did not quite pay of for Paul Holdsworth (Hounslow & District Wheelers) in the Elmet 12 last Sunday.

Pushing big gears through the windless early morning air the Hounslow rider covered 25 miles in the first hour, and his helpers were able to tell him that he was 30 seconds up on the scratchman and eventual winner Carl Ruebotham (Team Swift Allsports).

Progress was maintained for the next hour with 50 miles reached in two hours two minutes, but a time check at two and a half hours showed that no. 58, Colin Parkinson (South Western R.C.) was now only a minute behind Holdsworth (No.55). Parkinson had also started fast, but the Hounslow helpers had noticed that his face seemed to be a mask of pain even in the early stages; they thought he was trying too hard and would not last the distance. This proved to be wrong; the SWRC man still had the same expression and speed in the twelfth hour, and, worse he caught Holdsworth after about three and a half hours damaging his morale. Even so Paul covered the first 100 miles inside 4 hours 8 minutes which still held the promise of a good final mileage.

However, conditions did not get easier. The early morning calm gave way to a brisk wind which bent the trees and made one leg of the triangular circuit particularly tough. By mid afternoon Holdsworth had been caught for five minutes by the eventual winner Ruebotham, and the odd light showers of the morning had become consistent and troubling steady rain. Perhaps worst of all at about 1.30 pm Holdsworth’s gear cable broke leaving him permanently on his 11 tooth top sprocket. His front changer still worked and this gave him a choice of 55 or 39 teeth on the front ( gears of 132.9” and 94.2”). The helpers tried to persuade their man to stop to change his back wheel and screw the gear mechanism down to reduce the gearing, but Holdsworth refused help fearing that once he broke his rhythm it would be hard to get going again.

These factors together gave the Hounslow man a definite ‘bad patch’ in the afternoon, but, as usual, this suffering did not last for ever. Before the last hour he seemed cheerful and was moving fast on the easy sections. His time ran out with 270.87 miles covered, a distance which should help him to a high position in the British Best All Rounder table again this year.

Back at the HQ the winner, Carl Ruebotham, looked fresh and not much affected by his 285 miles of effort, a personal best for him by a mile and a half in spite of losing at least two minutes with a puncture.
“I was really riding for the team prize (which his club won comfortably). I can’t hope for a good BBAR placing because I was relying on the ECCA event for a good 100 time and this has been cancelled. The only other 100 left is the Team Swift event and I can’t ride because I’ve got a holiday booked. I always used to think of myself as a roadman, and I didn’t care much about time trials until about four years ago – I’m surprised to find myself taking an interest in the BBAR!” he said.

Mike Shacklock (Otley CC) took the veterans’ prize with 253.39 miles: an impressive distance for a sixty five year old.
Result:

1. Carl Ruebotham, Team Swift Allsports. 285.08 miles
   
2. Barry Charlton, Lyme RC 281.61
   
3. Colin Parkinson, South Western RC 276.50
   
4. Joel Wainman, Team Swift Allsports 276.42
   
5. Andrew Jackson, Pedalsport 275.30
   
6. Paul Holdsworth, Hounslow & District 270.87
   
7. Nicholas English, Reading CC. 261.10.
   
8. Thomas Rodda RAF CC. 254.69
   
9. Mike Shacklock Otley CC 253.39
   [FONT=&quot]10. Tony Boardman Team Swift Allsports 250.46. [/FONT]
   

Towards the end of the day.

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Chapeau, sir

If anyone has entered the RP time trial, start sheet is now available here:

http://cyclingtimetrials.janet0102.co.uk/Default.aspx?&ge1245__geka=MoeMaZhZdmGPSYuQ8onYwgAXZDlkUdIJNURFk8E06xxJZDKDHJP_DeP8RsGXPsL9KAOoG2axbA3s0pMmhb76GQ&ge1245__gevi=bkosVTEcmXX5ekdECVvBmA&gv391__gvac=2&gv391__gvff0=2073&gv391__gvfl0=0&language=en-GB&tabid=62

You've got Hutch riding! I know he's local, but that's still a bit of a coup.

Not that local - he's coming down from Cambridge.

You've got Hutch riding! I know he's local, but that's still a bit of a coup.

Not that local - he's coming down from Cambridge.

Yes, he used to be local there, but he moved some time ago.

(^ So it's even more of a coup.)

Well, I'm obviously not a stalker like you two.

Anyone doing the BTTC in september?

http://www.northbucksroadclub.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=111

Well, I'm obviously not a stalker like you two.

At least we can keep up with him. ;=}