Race of Truth (TT Bike)

Ordered a new rock and roll clamp, from some googling it seems like some OG ones were duff, so wonder if I had some older ones.
Hopefully the new ones are better.

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Going back to attaching a can of pit stop.
It won't fit under the saddle.

Any other bright ideas. Maybe between the arms, behind my hands. I guess that's aero negative.

Behind the stem?

Have you read Papillion?

No, link? Google brings up pictures of puppies.

Hmm, would be more in the wind than between arms.
I'm workin on idea of BTA bottle being aero negative, so surely something smaller would be too.

problem is arms are higher than extensions
should have got a speed concept with draft box!

Edit: Move garmin forward and tape canister onto stem, between elbows.

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It's a book by a French ex-con who was sent to the French penal colony in what was French Guyana. The only place to store money/valuables was in what they called a charger, a short aluminium tube that you stored up your 'arris.

I could do with a poke up the arse at points, when I start slacking off!
Will look into it.

Garmin should be as close to your hands as possible anyway.

People sometimes stash bits in the tail of the helmet.

I figured just infront of stem was pretty negative.
No go with helmet, neck issues don't need exacerbating.

Maybe I'll risk it. I rode out on saturday, 35miles each way down b roads no issues.

Could always stash it at the start. I've always carried pitstop, whether it would actually work or now, who knows. Maybe I won't bother this time.

Yeah not a bad idea. Though tyre would probebrly be messed up by time I get back there.

Holder for pit stop made from plastic pipe & cable ties - would that work under saddle?
BTA bottle - the more space it fills between arms/behind the hands (without adding to frontal area) the better, no? With smaller like a can of pit stop, negative drag would be diminished.

No becasue it would stick well out behind saddle. P2 seatpost comes up very high.
Yeah between arms seems best.

Supposedly there is a V2 Vuka BTA mount from Zipp, but there seems to be a gap between the withdrawal of the V1 and the introduction of the V2.

And as you can see, I've mounted mine with the Garmin mount at the rear (I don't have a Garmin): as it's restrictive having it at the front.

Up to 50 you could just zip-tie a bottle between the arms and put your crap in there.

I'm standing by to be corrected, but if the theory is that a BTA bottle fills the gap, I can't see something smaller being better (as it won't fill the gap).

X-Lab do a BTA, but it's Velcro fastened: OK for Pitstop etc, but I wouldn't trust it with a full bottle.

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looks smart thanks

I have the Xlab bta mount (torpedo?) some place on eBay was clearing out loads of Xlab stuff dead cheap so I got it for 55p ha.

It's secure enough.

It's secure enough.

TBF I've never used one and my opinion is prejudiced and without substance: I had a bad experience with Velcro as a child, which haunts me to this day...

PS Any Delta 225 or Gorilla cages going?

No, it was just Torpedoes and Sonic Wings.