Fixed Time Trial Bikes

i have a planet x stealth which does the job - longer than i'd like though

this is fricking sick...

Hello everyone !

This is my first post, although I've lurked for a long time.....

And thats one of my time trial bikes !

Its a BT frame from Australia. Not light, but super stiff and aero. Super sexy ! I still ride it, but I'm mostly racing on a Hotta carbon monocoque now. Fixed, of course.

Welcome - quite a stable of bikes you have

Just get some tri bars and stick them on any of your fixed bikes along with a big gear, unless you want to try a medium 72" gear TT

I am currently using a cheap steel Raleigh frame along with a couple of cheap wheels off e-bay
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I have just geared down from 90" as I rode a 50TT Sunday and have the KCA 12hour coming up next month.
Last Wednesday rode a 24:56 10tt and Sunday was 2:22:25 50tt

Before I have used my old sixties Lambert;

Welcome - quite a stable of bikes you have

Yes, I'm something of a tart, I'm told, when it comes to bikes. especially fixed gear !

I thinks its up to eight or nine fixed bikes, and four carbon road bikes, and a mountain bike or two.

Others get drunk, or have a social life......I collect bikes !

Fixedwheelnut........

Thats a pretty good aero postion you've got there !

I've been considering having a go at a tt, I've just changed up to 48 - 15 on my bj and its not to bad (I hit 36.4 at 3am on sunday morning haha!).

Where did you get these stickers hippy? I had a few of these a while ago.

I pleasured a man from Putney and he covered my bike...

Putney connection ayeee.

Others get drunk, or have a social life......I collect bikes !

With us you can do both. See the beers threads....

Did a practice run on 81" just now. All did not go well. Going down a drag on the way out I span out. Just getting to the roundabout to turn and I get a puncture on the front. Feels like I need 84" but I'm gonna give 87" a go as it's my only other choice atm

Did a practice run on 81" just now. All did not go well. Going down a drag on the way out I span out. Just getting to the roundabout to turn and I get a puncture on the front. Feels like I need 84" but I'm gonna give 87" a go as it's my only other choice atm

I seem to remember Chris Boardman doing sub 18:00 on 88", i might be wrong ....

I do most of my TTing on fixed. Bianchi D2 pista. Old screw on disc with track convertor and 56x13.

56x13! my knees hurt thinking about a gear that big and lactic acid is building up as i speak :)

Nice bike BTW

Yeah, the hour record was once set on 79" too. I think it all depends on the individual. Not everyone can spin for that length of time etc.

Did the 10 tonight. Fucking pissed it down. But somehow I still managed a 25:29. Quite surprised tbh.

apparently Condor make one:

quick update, I had to move the pics, now here:http://mikesimagination.wordpress.com/condor-stadio-fixed-tt-bike/

i'm still in awe of this bike. I've been gradually building something similar, albeit on a much tighter budget.

cool, would like to see pics when done. I haven't been doing much by way of bike projects of late, haven't got any spare ££ while working to get the Painted Roads biz up and running. All good fun, but I am on the cusp of building myself a dedicated fixed gear tourer..

^i would make bumlove to that bike

heres mine (although i just sold the frame)

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/1426/img7510j.jpg

that bianchi is lush

that bianchi is lush

it's got a nice classic look IMO. Beforee the stadio I was TTing on a Condor Pista EOM frame, I should never have sold it, it was alovely frame to ride.. both as a regular bike and a TT bike.

cool, would like to see pics when done. I haven't been doing much by way of bike projects of late, haven't got any spare ££ while working to get the Painted Roads biz up and running. All good fun, but I am on the cusp of building myself a dedicated fixed gear tourer..

i meant similar in function rather than form, it's based around a giant omnium so it's never going to be that pretty. At the moment it needs nice wheels and i simply dont have the cash so it's sitting looking a bit redundant :-(

I'm also thinking of putting together a fixed TT bike (also be my first TT bike). I'm going to be doing it on a shoestring, and have been looking at some frames or framesets like the dolan precursa or tifosi pista, would this be a good basis for a fixed TT....any thoughts?

I'm doing the same thing, currently pondering gearing for my (far, far too large) Langster framed TT bike.

The TT that I am going to do is the Bexley 10, which goes uphill for 4 miles and then downhill for 6, so you need a gear that you can push up the hill that you then don't spin out coming down.

This is something of a challenge- FixedWheelNut was running 97 gear inches, which he pushed up a hill that had me shift to the inner ring.