Third overall, 1:20 down on second and errrr six minutes down on the might Maybank. On top of that I raced a hard Surrey League Masters crib yesterday at Cyclopark to unlucky 11th.

Good day helping at the Scottish national 10 champs. Wind on the out slowed it down a bit ,but proper test for that fairly new course.Sunshine bonus in the afternoon. 🙂

@ Tired I think the bike looks great! Possubly the shortest headtube I’ve ever seen. Surely you can afford to drop the bars a wee bit tho? So many spacers 😯 plus the saddle to bar drop looks fairly conservative.

@ mrblooby a 10 after a 25 – rather you than me!! I’ve only done one 25 but it really took it out of me, could feel it for a few days after. Good luck eh! Is H25/1 a fast course? I’ve only ridden H25/17 which seemed quick but was busy and quite narrow in places – not a good combination.

IMO, you’d probably shave more time by lowering the front and spending a few weeks getting used to the position than you could ever save on wheels.

Do you have a picture of you riding? Even though I think I have more drop on my makeshift setup, I’m acutely aware that my head is still periscoped up above my body line.

Definitely do it a bit at a time though, with a couple of training rides in each position to help you adjust.

EDIT: BTW, I did a mid 57 that day. 2 club mates (one a sub 20 10 miler, one a sub 50 25 miler) both did mid 55s on full TT setup. Hutch was the only person to dip under 50 that day. Just.

21:21 for me on the F11…PB by a huge 2 seconds! Better than not though. Didn’t find it a massively quick day, but not slow either. I was hoping for a bit more time off the PB, but I wasn’t feeling great so I’ll happily take the 2s 🙂

Yeah. If you’re doing 100s, then your neck may suffer.

What sort of helmet are you running? Maybe a stubby one would be ideal if you struggle to crane your neck up the whole time. Something super short like the Catlike Rapid would allow you to have your head down without a big tail stuck up in the wind. (Although I would still advise looking where you’re going )

In that pic, I’m running a Thomson layback post reversed to give me a steeper effective seat tube angle. I’m also using an Adamo (Now swapped for a Cobb V-Flow Max), which has helped me to get further forward and rotated in a more comfortable manner.

£30 used Giro Advantage of the TT forum (I’m cheap). I have a Medium Giro shaped head and the fit is very good. Kask don’t really do it for me. I also road race wearing an Air Attack. I’m pretty careful about head position, so consciously don’t stick the peak into the wind, But lower head may help a bit. Definitely need the reverse layback post in a 27.2 (I have a 30.6 already 🙁 ). The Ares feels great but then I can ride almost anything flat!

I know how it feels. I often watched a beautiful sunny day out of the office window, then rocked-up at club 10s and spent 30 minutes hiding the car hoping for a squall to pass. Either that, or you go off for a warm-up and realise the wind is 90° to the course – head-wind all the way!

Nice one on the PB, mrblobby.

I don’t like 10s, far too painful. Give me an 100 any day.

From Charlotteville 50:

Team issue unfortunately… faster than bare legs 😉

Mixed ride tonight on the club 12.5 mile route. It was tough conditions (headwind up a stiff climb) but I wasn’t dropping too much time on last week’s ride which had been in fast conditions. Then I got stuck behind a queue of traffic that was stuck behind a tractor that was stuck behind a slower rider. Spent about 2 miles sitting up and covering the brakes with a fair amount of freewheeling, and was rather frustrated at the end.

I was then cheered up by the fact that I was still much closer to last week’s time than most people!

No TT this weekend, doing my first circuit race of the season. E1234. Lovely… (Although to be fair all the pre-entries seem to be 3 and 4).

22.18 in the Didcot 10 on the H10/17 last night. Mark Jones turned up and destroyed everyone with a 20.11.

Nice course, potentially quicker than the more popular H10/17r variant. 31mph for 6 miles to the turn, but A brutal wind up the final ‘climb’ made topping 20mph tricky.

Tried a slower cadence which I think helped me pace better. Not as relevant in a 10, but may be useful for my first 25 on Sunday.

Sadly the course ran out before I got to use that “saved” energy! It was downhill with a tailwind too so while it was an easy stretch I reckon I could have gone faster without the traffic.

Ah.

NoPinz, did my old skinsuit when I did exactly the same before a 50. 1 week turnaround.

Yup