Time Trial / Time Trialling / TT

That @umop3pisdn guy is really feeble... You'll smash him in no time...

;o)

Since when did shortwave radio transmissions play a part in this shit?!

A tonne of hours in a wind tunnel? :)

cb?

Course best

Citizen Band

Cool Bro

Any of you folk want to subsidise my costs and order some new Omega X brakes when I get my Alpha X bars? :)

hmm - possibly, what would you be charging for the Omega X?
Was contemplating getting one of the older Omegas now they are reduced.

No idea. Someone do some maths where we all save money and I'll go for it.

I'll have some SVs to get rid of as well.

Bloody hell, I'm a long way from the old 'run what ya brung' days...

does .24 sound roughly right as a CDA for the time/power output from last night?

using aerolab for the first time!

For almost 300w, probably

G'wan then. I can resist no more. One Tririg Omega for me.

Was on for a very short 22/long 21 On the U375 today, certainly a PB... until I got to the final roundabout and one of the signs was pointing in the wrong direction! gutted. I think I'd have finished sixth too which would have been my best placing to date.

There was a guy from VC Saint Raphael riding a T4, I meant to say hi and talk gear inches but didn't have time, so hello if you are on here.

19:33 on V718 in grim weather today. Race cancelled for the final few riders, raining and wind all over the place! 117" fixed as I couldn't get the chain length right for 116", headwind return was a bit solid towards the end

Flying! PB?

Bad luck @Borek, at least it's still early season. Plenty more to come.

107" or 111" for H10/22 tomorrow? Accidently did 50 miles today so I'll either be flying or knackered.

Cheers - previous best was 20:07 on gears and 20:40 on fixed. Definitely things to work on, but that'll do for the mo.

I'd go big as there might be some proper quick sections in this current wind?

Looks like that Christmas aero testing is paying off, who'd have thought ;)

Mmm, I was spinning out on the way back last time but that was with a tailwind. Wind is blowing the opposite way tomorrow, tail out head back. The 53t is on at the moment, I'll see how I feel in the morning.

I have the Beacon mountain TT tomorrow but not doing it on fixed (was considering it and had built a bike! But headwind up one of the hills and I'd stall).

I think only Mark Arnold (with a 19:19) has gone quicker than me on fixed in the past ~8yrs. Same time as Scott Povey back on the P613 years ago. Died magnificently with ~1 mile to go!

https://www.strava.com/activities/292402913/analysis/1107/2273

@xavierdisley Nice TT podcast, but you just embarrass yourself every time you try to pretend that the reference line for the 3cm rule is anything other than the steering pivot axis. Perhaps as you're the one who doesn't understand the regulation, you should be the one to propose a change of regulation to make it clearer to you :-)

lol perhaps eh :D

Nick English tried to get one a better 3cm one through last year, but to be honest until there's a system in place where these things are actually checked then it's just empty rulings isn't it? If they're not going to do people for front wheel infractions (waaay easier to check) then there's no hope for a positional DQ.

21.41 for 5th at the Westerley CC promotion on H10/22. Pete Tadros won with 20.14. Went for 111", power 10w up on Good Friday.

Came within a foot of being knocked off at the A4 turn, probably gave me a bit of an adrenaline boost for the return leg.

If they're not going to do people for front wheel infractions

Sean Yates did actually get DQed for a Hed 3Deep in the National 50 a few years ago.

Although the 3cm rule is defined clearly enough for people not trying to make words have other meanings than their usual ones, it's hard to enforce because it's hard to gather the evidence, and it doesn't even limit use of the superman position, since anybody really keen to get their elbows a long way forwards could just build a frame with an abnormally long top tube. Shortarses can get pretty Super without even having to buy a custom frame.

If you really want to get rid of superman, you have to place some limit on the angle of the upper arm, and then you get into a set of regulations based on measuring not just the bikes but the riders. Not going to happen when it's hard enough to find timekeepers, never mind scrutineers, and there's nothing at stake in CTT events anyway, so I suspect most of us don't actually care very much about being beaten by cheats since a: they would probably beat us even without cheating and b: making a serious effort to catch the cheats would make TTing a PITA for everybody, with no corollary benefit.

Tadders is taking life seriously at the moment, he blasted through the village on his TT bike at 7am the other day, in the fog. The sound of a disc wheel approaching unseen was a bit disconcerting.

Entered a 50, E2/50c on the 16th of May. That's gonna be a 25, 50 and 100 on consecutive weekends...