I won’t ride my TT bike this year. Its only a budget model but it’ll be hanging on the wall until at least 2019. Unlike MTB’s though, I don’t see the standards changing much to make it obsolete in its entirety by then.

Would you you sell it on, on the basis that when I roll out out it won’t be “current” and is money could be used elsewhere this year, or has the cost been absorbed so it should be kept?

Depends on a few factors.

Will you actually ride it next year?
Do you need the money?
Will you have the money to buy another next year?

It is a road bike so I’d sell it.

Keep it hooked up to a turbo trainer?

Genuine question – and be honest with the answer. …

When you do decide to ride it, will it be “good enough” or will you actually decide you need a better one?

If the latter, sell it now.

Scotroutes- its not my main discipline and I’ve enjoyed the bike up to now, I just like pushing myself rather than paying a lot of money to top as timesheet with a gazillion aero gains. I see it as cheap race motivation.

In which case, best to keep it in case I get back into it. Actually, I could ask my coach 20min / 1hr intervals would be good for my mid summer/race training maintenance as a change from MTB so I don’t get sick of it.

And thanks, good question which leads to a self concluding thread 🙂

Sorted!!!

Yup, keep it, be good for variety and training. Same reason i’ve still got an XC bike. Also a similar TT bike in a couple of years will be no different spec/standard wise.

Keep it, nothing like a quick blast on the TT bike on a quiet, undulating, twisty turny road. Feels like riding a jet fighter!

I’ve been wondering the same thing for the past 4 years. Mine has been hanging on the garage wall all that time unridden and gathering dust.

I keep telling myself that I’ll find time to get fit enough to TT again at some point. I also keep telling myself that I’d get peanuts for the bike (Campag equipped Ribble Aero TT) and a replacement in the future would cost ££££.

keep it. As a noob TT appears to be the most conservative of the bike disciplines so very little obsolescence and little use/wear and tear. Me and better half both bought used 10spd bikes last year and they are mint.

especially because of this

I just like pushing myself rather than paying a lot of money to top as timesheet with a gazillion aero gains. I see it as cheap race motivation.

– you’re not desperate to buy seconds. We’re the same, we’ll be riding our weekly club 10 (Weston airfield circuit) as a mixture of socialising and fitness barometer through the summer.

weekly club 10 (Weston airfield circuit)

May well have some of that this year if you are welcoming to members of other clubs (even if it is twisty, bumpy and windy!) After events of last season racing on open roads is not appealing 😕

MrBlobby we are, very. It’s a whopping 2 quid more for non-club members to race but some nights there’s more ‘visiting’ riders than club members.

When I marshall I do photos which seem to go down well (I like arty pain faces but racers prefer side-on so they can critique their technique!) and we’ll probably have a couple of BBQ nights in the summer.

Basically every Tuesday from March 27th though we are at the mercy of the RAF parachuting later and standing water from heavy rain, usually a notification goes up on club (Bicester millennium) FB page which I think is open.

I like the fact that it’s a flat traffic-free circuit, it might not be ‘fast’ but as there are fewer outside influences you can compare times more rigorously.

Sounds great, hopefully see you there 🙂

I may join you!

not trying to hijack your thread but be good to see you there

Do FB pic links work?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1948160172090605&set=oa.10155478372764099&type=3&theater

Looks like a no 🙁

I may join you!

Let me know if you fancy a two up sometime 😉

Let me know if you fancy a two up sometime

Would love to, I’ve a feeling you’ll be towing me around so as long as you’re happy with the handicap… 😀

Sounds good Kryton, I’ll let you know when there’s one on.

We’ll have to 2-up Swinley at some point and you can humble me on your turf 🙂

I need to ride MTB tomorrow, and then every Saturday to the 27th MrBlobby. Happy to pop down to Swinley…