Fixed Time Trial Bikes

I think your body may be partially shielding your bottle from the airflow, you might want to look into that :-)

Despite best efforts, it doesn't

Me on my mad commuter thing doing an 10 mile hilly, wet, windy Tt. Normal time would be about 27/28 so hardly setting the world on fire, but plenty of beer a few hours earlier, unexpected hills, wind, 68" fixed, silly carbon risers and all other excuses I can think of = 30min30sec

I thought that was a good time considering!

Excuses, excuses. :)

That's got a custom fibre-lyte carbon 110-144bcd adaptor to run a Sram Rival crank with stages PM fixed. Might be Chris Vollers?

Might be Chris Vollers?

Pretty sure it's Cliff Voller's bike, but with any luck he's upgrading to a T3 soon. I think the adapter is actually 130 to 144, but the main reason for it is to fix the chainline rather than the pcd.

#fail, i even googled him to check... selling him yours?

I've got a 110 - 144 adapter plate if anyone would benefit from it?

selling him yours?

No way. He has dibs on one that one of his club mates is selling.

Why no just use omniums?

Do stages do omnomnoms? You have to buy Omnia, then buy a non-matching Stages GXP left crank, and he also needs a chainring since the SRAM track one is nowhere near big enough for the gearing he uses (well, he could go 48/12, but who wants to use a 12T sprocket for TTs?) Plus that's the Rival OCT crank, so he gets better cranks for less by using the hollow road cranks rather than the solid track ones, and Fibrelyte are usually good value (I think he mentioned not much over £100 for the chainring and the adapter) so it's quite likely that there's little or no premium for using Rival, given that Omniums are typically at least £50 more than Rivals.

why not use stages with Ultegra + USE chainrings?

That's what I'd have done (well, 105 since there's no point to Ultegra if you're going to bin the chain rings), if I wanted a: Stages and b: 42mm chainline. You'd need to ask Cliff why he chose SRAM, although the difference is small enough that "aesthetics" would be a perfectly sensible answer.

I use my rival stages arm with omniums at the track. Works perfectly.

what does everyone think about the planet x track TOR for tt? claims to be aerodynamic, but is it? Never had any experience with planet x what do you think @umop3pisdn about yours?

has good geometry for what i want.

anyone know if the fork is drilled?

anyone know if the fork is drilled?

Wasn't the lack of fork drilling the second* point of comedy when it was launched?

*the first being the paint, obvs.

I've got the older track frame rather than the TOR, I like it and haven't had any issues. TOR fork is undrilled, a 3T funda would probably look OK.

IMG_0003 by shredthe gnar, on Flickr

mine right now, still needs disc/hed 3 for summer

still needs disc/hed 3 for summer

Your calendar no workin?

still needs brick wall for internet position analysis

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Looks mean. What gear?

55 15 so 99, but may go up to 55 14 @umop3pisdn, position is pretty good now @mdcc_tester unfortunately i haven't got any pictures!

Had this Ellis Briggs for a while and despite the shoddy coat (it's purple in daylight), I'm rather fond of it: must be one of the last Ishiwata 017 builds, built by Jack Briggs as a favour for a friend etc etc.

However it has vertical dropouts, so no good to me as it is. But it's occurred to me that the VD put the axle in the same plane as fork ends would.

And if I used fork ends with a derailleur hanger, it would preserve the integrity of the frame as well as giving it a new lease of life.

Or am I being daft?

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However it has vertical dropouts, so no good to me as it is.

Why not? Just build it up with 1×6 gears (57/12-17 for maximum points)