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His performance on the H25/17 was actually a tiny bit better than we had hoped. He's riding everything in a UCI legal position and setup except for the draft box on the Trek SC. Marcin has been doing comp records etc. UCI illegal so it does put Hamish up there.

We're not interested in comp records for him really, he's over here to check the effects of having spent >3 weeks at altitude (it worked) and now it's just a case of getting him sorted for world champs and all the bureaucracy that goes with it. Not allowed to ride our suits/wheels etc. so we'll just do what we can.

Well done - was tough!

I wasn't given a time for ages after, somewhere around 20:10-20:20 and I think I was provided with 20:19 in the end (Garmin said 20:13). Bit poor for me but hopefully National 10 will be better - Hamish did 17:54 but he reckons his back brake was on (and looking at the data afterwards I suspect it was). Bit of a damp squib day!

Because of all the nationals and how the calendar sits with when Hamish is over here we had to get a bit creative with the races to ensure we could benchmark his performances effectively (he rides for AeroCoach).

H25/17 today, F11/10 next week are good ones, then we have some smaller K district club races the week after that. Also doing a 25 up in Market Drayton, we could have got him to ride things like the R25 but he’s travelled around so much recently we’re limiting it to ~90min from the Midlands where he’s staying.

It's bad on a narrow H3 to be out of true, but more modern trispokes (like the Pro Shimano one) are pretty immune to it because of the bulged rim shape. To be fair I've only ever seen one Pro trispoke that was actually true out of all the pro teams and riders that have had them!

Yes we have done - for pros it’s an easy sell (to the team staff) but for the everyday roadie they’ve mostly got aero allergies. That is the group the Boardman centre is looking to bring in, time will tell whether a Performance Centre is intimidating or not to those people.

As an aside, we were in Amsterdam last week for some closed door discussions with Garmin, DC Rainmaker was there and we ran him through a session - very switched on guy.

We got involved during the construction and have had some input into the software being used, all about making it better for the end user really whether they're a Boardman customer or an AeroCoach customer.

There will be another tier on top of the Boardman offering which will be an AeroCoach powered wind tunnel session, building on the >550 rider bank of knowledge we've got and also using the tunnel slightly differently from normal to maximise data, but those protocols will probably trickle down to Boardman tunnel sessions over time. Boardman are very happy for us to do that as it's attracting a different client base really.

It is very quick, as a comparison you get an effective CdA reduction of about 80% of what you get by riding the V718. Bit busy though, last time I rode I got buzzed a few times.

Sounds like you've already got rid of the pin but ideally you want to keep it close to the top of the chain really. We've not had anyone say that before though, what size ring is it?

It's no wonder he's so rubbish at TTs at the moment ... all the pressure mapping they've been doing has killed his CdA

Annual Excel spreadsheet of CTT events:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gl7zqaw09sxjnok/AAA2U4swqiAwm6e4bdOxKpgca?dl=0

Aha - any reason? Unless it's saving to buy an AeroCoach disc it'll be a bad reason

Depending on what seatpost you have you might be able to flip it - you can fit either Thompson posts or Bontrager ones (it's 25mm or something from memory, not 23).

Original forks are fine - we had also worn a groove into the chainstay so don't worry about that too. Headset can be replaced with the 1" Cane Creek external one if the current one is a bit dead.

Paint job not available to general public unfortunately lol

Booking slots are on the site - we've not got any double open paired sessions at the moment but might be able to squeeze one in Feb, just email through the contact form and we can sort something out. You don't have to pair yourselves up though, and there are lots of half sessions available which are on there at the mo (eg. 9th and 16th Jan)

It'll depend on position really - the Shiv is quite short so you might end up quicker if you have a slightly different position. You'd probably need to go P5 to see a material difference.

It's not the actual crazy narrow Walser with narrow wheel spacing - but I bought it with the hope that it would use basically the same mould so you could rig narrow cranks and there'd be loads of clearance. Luckily I was right and you can run 128mm Q factor single ring no probs, I'm on ~138mm

New P2 is higher (we have to use an adjustable stem to get Rich lower on it), but there's your answer and it's £25 or something from Halfords. It's a really good frame - for 2016 we used the rest of Rich's budget on aero testing rather than a P5! Trek Speed Concepts are good but many more ££ than a P2 which would be my first choice if I was buying new - our product manager is probably going to get one for next year.

Personally I ride a Focus branded Walser but that's because I want to be all flash and Euro for those that recognise what it is :D

We did end up with this rather nice trophy even if pics have yet to materialise

Aero for TTs? We do a 54t and 58t 1x carbon chainring that can be cut to fit (by us)

A Powerpod has to be mounted on the front of the bike - it's effectively a wind sensor that back calculates power rather than measuring it directly with a strain gauge. I'd find something else TBH

Don't bother if you're swapping around loads, they're too sensitive to position. Numbers are vaguely ballpark but if you want some kind of number just get a Powercal

No aero concessions ever :D

Ah right - sorry about that, been a bit mental juggling things!

Full disc cover shallow rim

Where did you ask? Rest assured I want a fixed one as well - we have a track design in the works which will be tubular, potential for one off tubeless fixed but it may cost a bit extra!

We worked bloody hard to get the price where it is, it's been nearly 6 months of design, manufacturing and testing - I thought we were finished about 5 weeks ago and then we hit a snag so that put things back. Flo actually tried to make polymer discs to start with but found it too hard so went to carbon (now we know why lol), but ours are now faster and lighter. There are 4 different groups (all in the UK) that have come together to make it a reality - but all worth it.

I think I'm going to need to build up a new bike for this actually.

If anyone sees a team all running stupid aero kit it'll be us - our top rider has about 15w/kg FTP at the moment so I'll just do half an hour and call it a day.