doesn’t he also have some GWR for running a rapid mara in his speedos (or something like that)
Our club is running an open 15 mile sporting TT this Sunday morning. Saw his name on the start sheet. Sandwiched in between @wheezy and myself
His local roads now he’s moved down to Dorking too
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I’m sure I had read before than an aero bottle is quicker than no bottle, so I did replace my normal bottle with an Elite Crono CX. However when researching that it did suggest that no bottle would be quicker.
Having done a few 10 mile TTs I’ve found I haven’t been drinking at all, figuring I’d lose more time doing it and not get enough benefit over that short a distance.
So should I completely remove the bottle for 10s?
I thought the Elite Chrono acted as a fairing and was faster?
Who drinks in a 10???
Lunatics!
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Unless I’m not reading this correctly, it shows all bottle positions introducing a penalty?
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I’m planning on having the same bottle fitted but with no liquid in it on Sunday
“ This particular bottle was designed for the Giant Trinity range of bikes, and on those bikes it is often a smaller (or sometimes no) penalty as it integrates well. “
I don’t have a Giant Trinity or that bottle, and it doesn’t say it reduces drag, only at best doesn’t add it.
With a quick Google I could not see anything to support that an aero bottle will result in less drag on average.
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Well, my mind is blown!!!
30s over 180km = ~3s on a 10TT.
I reckon for the faff, I’ll leave it on for the evening 10s.
And for the ~6s on a 25TT, I might like a little drink on those RABs where we HAVE to come off the bars
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Yep, officially its “dressed as a swimmer”. Speedos, arm bands, swim hat, goggles (not over eyes) and snorkle were the required apparatus. Have to admit I’ve never seen anyone swimming in that combo!
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Not in a 10, but before/after, and my local 10 has a “please cycle to the event if possible, no bag drop at start/finish” policy in place at the moment. As you say, not worth the phaff of removing for what is effectively a training ride.
I don’t have any middle/long distance events planned, just focusing on the weekly 10s, so I might take the 3 second gain 
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Well, yeah / so would I in that case 
I’ve just realised that they only tested the aero bottle on the downtube? The standard bottles test faster on the seat tube, so why didn’t they test the aero bottle on the seat tube?
Well the official results are in: 24:45, a 45 second improvement on almost the same watts (~260W).
Had to wait for the official results as it seems when dismissing a screen that popped up on the Garmin I turned off the GPS. Grr!
Changes to prior week:
- Bike fit with aero testing: estimated improvment 10-15W. Removed 10mm spacer, saddle raised 3mm, bars greater angle upwards
- Replaced GP4000 SII 25mm with GP5000 25mm
- Removed bottle (Elite Crono CX)
- New longer front brake cable for better alignment down centre of fork
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Gainz! 
I’ve dodged a bullet there - I was off as no.1.
Pleased - need a good day, hopefully better times later in the year
Apparently a race on the E2 tomorrow has been cancelled because of the weather, was this the one that closed on a 10?
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I don’t think so it looks like a middle markers event.
Yes it was the one that closed on 19:50. Apparently a fastest and a MM event held one after the other. One of the reasons it closed on such a fast time was that the organiser was uncomfortable running two full events so halved the field of each.
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