Let's See Your Time Trial bike

[ryanw]

Here's one I specced and built for a good friend of mine. One pic with training wheels (8.75kg), the other with race wheels.

On his second ever "hot lap", he broke the 5 year KOM round Richmond Park on it. A lot more to be had once he dials it in. Has his first 10 on it tomorrow too.

58/44 AeroCoach chainrings will be here next week, so he's currently on a 53T

No safety issues with the amount of spacers?

The bike has no spacers

[TimmS]

Race mode

Just bought a Tririg frontbrake, dropped the front 1cm and I need a bigger, 52, chainring!

[jekyll man]

Here's one I specced and built for a good friend of mine. One pic with training wheels (8.75kg), the other with race wheels.

On his second ever "hot lap", he broke the 5 year KOM round Richmond Park on it. A lot more to be had once he dials it in. Has his first 10 on it tomorrow too.

58/44 AeroCoach chainrings will be here next week, so he's currently on a 53T

No safety issues with the amount of spacers?

It's a telescoping "stem" for want of a better word.
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[FlatlandClimber]

The beast returns with a new cockpit and the world's fastest (and flimsiest) tires:

[14sandee]

I love the look of the Wattshop extensions, what do you think about the setup of them?

[FlatlandClimber]

While I am happy with the extensions themselve, the set up wasn't a great experience.
Out of the box, it only comes with the angle and position you had before, but you can't really move the bars forward of backwards.... or change their tilt. You can only move the arm cups to each side and move the bars closer together at the tips, but even that is super limited, because you otherwise can't fit a Bolt in between.
And the grips are really darn short, lucky I have small hands.
Also, tightening steel screws to 5Nm on the thinnest pieces of carbon felt wrong.
They gave more thought to aerodynamics and looks than to ergonomics.

[14sandee]

Interesting to know. The grips being short is so they can be UCI legal I'd guess, and I assume Dan reckons most people buying these will already be pretty dialled position-wise. Considering he's constantly tweeking you'd have thought he'd want plenty of adjustability in the design, but apparently not.

[FlatlandClimber]

Just spoke to them, and there will be a solution to make the position more "tweakable" over the winter. I am getting custom hand poles, that are slightly longer.

[robeambro]

If everytime you get a ban you come back with all of these purchases, I can't wait for the next time they ban you. Unsure what the reason was but do it again!

[FlatlandClimber]

I am unsure too, but always come back stronger. Important rule

[RyanH]

Please do not quote everyone above you, it makes it very difficult to read.

[Buexx]

Very nice upgrades FlatlandClimber. Always a pleasure to see your bike and makes me want mine to be built up even more.
What made you buy the wattshop extensions over e.g. the aerocoach ones (they are a fair amount cheaper) or some completly custom made options (that would probably be a lot more expensive).

[FlatlandClimber]

Hello Buexx,
The main reason that made me pick the Wattshop extensions over the Aerocoach extensions was, that the AC ones weren't available at the time of ordering. If I had the choice again, I'd probably go AC, because I am also being coached by them and do my position adjustment with them.
The Wattshop ones look great and have great build quality, but they have their limitations when it comes to adjustment.
I will likely move my position around a little every now and then, and therefore this is important to me.
That would also be the problem for me with something like "Speed Bar". The fully custom solutions have one position and usually no adjustment. That is not an option for me.

[LanceLegstrong]

The beast returns with a new cockpit and the world's fastest (and flimsiest) tires:

Such a sick bike. How tall are you and what size is the Shiv?

[FlatlandClimber]

I am 190cm tall (around 6'2.5") and have a 91cm inseam. The bike is a Large, which is the biggest frame they make.