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Yes we use them for work - they're perfectly fine and retransmit the signal as if it were a Bluetooth PM so would work with your iPad. Probably wouldn't work with an ANT+ FEC turbo to control it via Bluetooth though

No wave washer, but TBH the spline is so tight you can adjust the preload by not doing them up that little bit more. I’ve used them for ages, great cranks.

Not sure on the exact chainline as I needed to space mine out a bit (big chainring on a Cervelo T4 with poor clearance)

Gives us more time to sort out all our handlebar orders at least. Most nations aren’t looking at the approved list for stuff to buy, they’ve mostly all had their own internal programs.

Malaysia initially were just going to sit and wait and see what turned up on the list but then decided to drop big money on the frame/front wheel project instead.

I used to have some Doval road rings and they were very thin, I’ve seen a picture of a folded one somewhere so was wondering if the track ones were thicker at all. But regardless of that, having noncircular for track is changing the shape of my stroke volume just thinking about it

Printing a graph onto a chainring is fantastic. How thick is it?

As long as I can still ride outside I'll be using the local road race/sporting TT loop for training! I really hope that we don't get fully locked down, although I have a pretty hefty commute and you'd be allowed to solo commute I'd imagine?

You say that, I've already received directive from CTT that a very dim view will be held on people trying to do so (I'm the club event secretary for Midland DC, couple of clubs in Midland have already tried to organise unofficial TTs - a member of the public threatened to go to the police because of what Banbury Star CC were planning to do).

Rider dependent really - often works a bit better on track where the yaw angle is lower, but not common

He’s on a different bike now (same model)

It’s made in the same place, but is a tiny bit different (mainly around the hub). Not a Zipp wheel.

No max dimensions for front track wheels

The 90mm was mainly to make sure that no one on the start line has to measure a wheel (as there's basically nothing on the market deeper than that apart from niche wheels like our TITAN (100mm), a Flo 9 (95mm) or a Knight Composites 95mm), and I wouldn't expect anyone to try and ride them.

Otherwise you might get people using 82mm Zipp 808s (which are road race/crit legal) and others not noticing until later, cue lots of anguish etc. plus the raft of 80-88mm wheels which get used in RRs and crits. The more restrictions the less people enter, that's our thinking.

The CTT outright stole our rules for their classic series events and have basically kept everything apart from changing it to 65mm which is a weird non depth.

We've collated a Road Bike TT National series for 2020 - 50 open events with 6 to count for the overall standings. Basically aimed at removing the perceived barrier to entry where people new to the sport think you need a £10k spaceship to take part!

More info here: https://www.aero-coach.co.uk/aerocoach-road-bike-tt-national-series-2020

It’s an accessory for him :) love the triathlon regs and the ability to make custom stuff

We did think long and hard about where to put them lol - did cost an eye watering €510 worth of import duty to get them released to him in Belarus!

Here's the first one (Filippo Ganna with a ridiculous new IP WR Record of 4:04.252)

Yeah they’ll need to change that!

I think it’s a better situation overall, yeah

Yes the return on investment will be interesting - with the stuff we’re making there’s one product in particular that I think we’ll break even with but that might be tight (there are other reasons as to why we’re doing that one than just profit). Some of the bigger nations will of course just be burning money for speed not for ROI.

Hope are not going to make anything out of it though, but they do have zillions in the bank so it won’t sink them.

So the regulations around Olympic kit on the track in Tokyo (not road) are pretty stringent this year. In order to use a particular piece of kit under a rider, it has to form part of a registered list of products with the UCI.

Teams have to inform the UCI using an online system exactly what individual components each rider will be using at the Olympic track events, even down to the pedals/bottom bracket. That has to happen a month out so no changes after that either unless by special approval etc.

In order to get a piece of equipment on that list, it has to be submitted to the UCI by the federations, and everything has to have been used in international competition either prior to this current season, or by (the absolute latest) Track World Cup number 4 in Brisbane*.

For that list you have to submit the manufacturer, the product name and serial number, price and also where it can be purchased otherwise it doesn't go on the list - making it quite a departure from years past where no-one cared about the commerciality rules. For example you can now buy the German bikes from here:

https://fes-sport.de/shop_rad.htm

Don't buy their aerobars though as they're now UCI illegal and causing them all sorts of headaches.

The UCI technical commission are right now sat track centre in Minsk with a giant scanner on a crane, scanning bikes and components to make sure they match dimensions, they said they were going to do it but I didn't believe they actually would!

We have lots of stuff for a variety of different federations (I think 8 feds total) that need approval, not all of it will be left as late as TWC4 as we should be able to spread things out a bit. Some of our larger projects we've been in close communication with the UCI - in fact they invented a stem rule in their clarification document which was just for us. Joy.

*This was originally Track World Cup 1 in Minsk which is currently ongoing, but it was changed to TWC4 about 8 weeks ago. No-one from British Cycling told Hope though, so they were understandably miffed when I mentioned to a couple of their engineers this week that they had rushed to get the bike ready but still had 5 weeks to play with!

You should wait and see what we’re currently building for Antony (he’s one of our sponsored athletes)!

Nice to see @Jonny69 at the show and always happy to chat aero carbon 😀

We’re going to do a Facebook post on it - basically he was travelling fast enough for it to be worth it (unlike Hayley) and we had him in the tunnel last Thursday to check everything over. The disc weighs absolutely nothing so it’s win win really (or 3rd 3rd, however you want to put it)

Both Rich and Hayley were delighted with their results, it was a great day for both of them. Rich has been getting worried that his w/kg just weren’t good enough at his weight (72kg) but we had to keep reminding him in the office that he could do a good ride, historically he performs really well on big race days

Yeah that would work okay as long as you can download the file off trainerroad to compare. Or just use two Garmins

Easiest thing is just to do a ramp test, 3min blocks at 25w increments on each power meter (using the Kickr's power as your reference). Then you can check offset as well as slope.

Aha - Hayley and Rich are both hoping to ride and will be sharing some kit. We’re in the process of looking at Rich’s bike overall to make it a bit lighter, he rode Haytor on Sunday on just his training wheels.

Cat and Fiddle last week he had the full whack with clipons and an AEOX Powertap disc but given he hasn’t used aerobars for 3 years he found it a bit hard going!

Honestly not sure what he’ll be running, maybe the same setup as last week but without clipons. We have fun stuff planned for nationals