Doing what they do best...

[TissoT]

No blue red white on I see !... good picture thought

 

[Rob3rt]

No blue red white on I see !... good picture thought

Don't have a club speedsuit yet

 

[zizou]

Surprised you went for the disk wheel on the hill climb!

 

[Rob3rt]

Surprised you went for the disk wheel on the hill climb!

Haven't compared in equal conditions, but I would imagine there is little in it and it would be weather dependant. I have done the climb with disk and trispoke with aero lid and later in the year on normal road wheels with road helmet, I went a lot faster on the normal wheels etc, but there was a mega tail wind that day (so I might actually have been better off with the aero kit).

I would guess the choice comes down to conditions. If the weather is crap you might be better with light wheels and punching up to Walker Barn as fast as possible and surviving to the end, on a fast day you might be better with aero wheels and keeping the powder dry up the 1st part then smashing it on the rolling and draggy sections.

In this video at 22:20 you will see me overtake the helmet cam racer:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPSWpA-MWSw

 

[zizou]

Haven't compared in equal conditions, but I would imagine there is little in it and it would be weather dependant. I have done the climb with disk and trispoke with aero lid and later in the year on normal road wheels with road helmet, I went a lot faster on the normal wheels etc, but there was a mega tail wind that day (so I might actually have been better off with the aero kit).

I would guess the choice comes down to conditions. If the weather is crap you might be better with light wheels and punching up to Walker Barn as fast as possible and surviving to the end, on a fast day you might be better with aero wheels and keeping the powder dry up the 1st part then smashing it on the rolling and draggy sections.

In this video at 22:20 you will see me overtake the helmet cam racer:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPSWpA-MWSw

Have only heard the name cat and fiddle before have never riden it didnt realise it had rolling sections, guess aero makes sense in that case.

Incidentally i hope the guy with the helmet cam on didnt have it attached to an aero helmet! You often see that in the crit racing videos from the US, guys with skinsuits / aero bikes / wheels then they stick the gopro on top of their aero road helmet

 

[TissoT]

Who is the cam rider ! ... Do nt recognise his bike .

 

[Rob3rt]

Who is the cam rider ! ... Do nt recognise his bike .

He is called Ben.

 

[jowwy]

A tank on his bike trying to do it and myself justice

 

[Rob3rt]

Before the race ending puncture (8.7 miles into a 10 mile TT)! 29mph average until the tyre went.

I detect a few positional tweeks to be made!

 

[young Ed]

my pics of my bike doing what it does BEST would be a pic of it up in the stand with some major work being done
oh well nice road bike in the summer
Cheers Ed

 

[winjim]

Derwent duathlon. Obviously going too fast for the autofocus on my wife's phone to handle

 

[Beebo]

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Derwent duathlon. Obviously going too fast for the autofocus on my wife's phone to handle

If she'd taken it in landscape then she might just have squeezed you in!
!

 

[ColinJ]

I really like this picture of me coming round a bend after a steep descent. It is cropped from a picture taken by @Biscuit on the forum ride to Glasson Dock on Saturday.

 

[Rob3rt]

Ducklips, putting teenage girls on social media sites to shame there @ColinJ

 

[ColinJ]

Ducklips, putting teenage girls on social media sites to shame there @ColinJ

Ha ha - it certainly looks that way, but TBH I was concentrating more on the road than the fact that Biscuit had a camera trained on me! I think it is because the skin is a bit loose on my face now I have lost so much weight. There were a few other photos taken on the day that looked similar and I wasn't even aware that the pictures were being taken.

I remember the descent. There were riders coming the other way, and some had got off and were walking up. I used to do the loop the other way round and was caught out by that little climb the first time I did it. I bust a gut going up it to avoid walking.