Give them a go on corners , you will be surprised how upright you are . I always thought I was low down and nearly touching my knee until I watched other riders while stood on a corner . Watching other riders really helps . I take the camera along as it helps me aswell as them .
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Justinslow
Lovely jubbly
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It's funny, I always thought I was leaning over a lot round a roundabout on our 10 course, untill I watched other fast riders when I was marshalling, they were not leaned over at all so therefore me being slower was also not leaned over. Made me realise I could push a bit more round corners!
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
What got me thinking about it was someone else that wasn't able to ride at my first TT . He said to go and watch the corner as you can save 2 seconds on it according to his stats . So we did .
11 laps is 22 seconds faster if you have the guts to go for it . Most riders don't go for it on corners .
11 laps is 22 seconds faster if you have the guts to go for it . Most riders don't go for it on corners .
Yeah I'd be thinking about keeping safe on that one
SWSteve
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2nd ever 10TT 27:20. I'm dead chuffed as I would have loved 27:30. There was quite a bit of wind as well, I'll say that added 20 seconds of time ;-)
Cyclist33
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That doesn't make any sense.
Justinslow
Lovely jubbly
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Why doesn't it make sense?
I had a perception I was leaning over a lot, but watching other people take the same line has shown me that my perception of lean angle and actual lean angle are different.
Talk about splitting hairs
Cyclist33
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It made sense when I read it againWhy doesn't it make sense?
I had a perception I was leaning over a lot, but watching other people take the same line has shown me that my perception of lean angle and actual lean angle are different.
Talk about splitting hairs
Justinslow
Lovely jubbly
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- Suffolk
Granted, my use of the English language has somewhat degenerated over the last couple of decades...........It made sense when I read it again
Justinslow
Lovely jubbly
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- Suffolk
Local club B10/39 10 TT tonight, PB was 25.34 now it's 25.08.
Tantalisingly close to a 24, 9 bloody seconds!
Felt a bit lousy all week to be honest, went out Tuesday night for a quickish ride and felt flat, like nothing in the tank. So to PB can't be bad, just hoped to get into the 24's, one more try on that course this year........
Tantalisingly close to a 24, 9 bloody seconds!
Felt a bit lousy all week to be honest, went out Tuesday night for a quickish ride and felt flat, like nothing in the tank. So to PB can't be bad, just hoped to get into the 24's, one more try on that course this year........
Hill training for me to get my 25 on my local 10 . I have 2 more goes at it this season and plan to sprint up box hill this weekend . I may well die at the top but I'm going to give it a crack !
Justinslow
Lovely jubbly
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That's how I felt tonight at the end, you just have to turn yourself inside out don't you! I just ran out of oomph, the winning time was 22.02 a new course record
Hill training for me to get my 25 on my local 10 . I have 2 more goes at it this season and plan to sprint up box hill this weekend . I may well die at the top but I'm going to give it a crack !
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Added a course PB
on the Newark Castle CC Flawborough course (the PCC one was cancelled at the last minute so I tried the NCCC one). Lost fairbit at junctions (giving way) but was pleased at a 26.24 on my first go.
Justinslow
Lovely jubbly
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8 mile short course again tonight, hadn't ridden since Sunday, would have probably gone out Monday or Tuesday but just didn't get time for one reason or another so thought it might be interesting to see how I do with several days rest for tonight's (Thursday) TT.
Gave it the beans as usual and got back checking my I phone Strava (I don't use a garmin yet) found it said I was over 30 seconds slower - not impressed, as it felt quite quick to me. Anyway the stop watch doesn't lie so was relieved to post a 20.16, 14 seconds quicker than my last (best) time. Gawd knows what happened to my Strava to be so far out.
My time put me 5th overall out of 21 starters with a winning time of 18.44.
Overall pretty pleased with that time with several pukka TT bike scalps! Got a standard crankset to fit replacing my compact so hopefully can gain a bit of speed down the slopes (where I tend to lose a lot spinning out in top gear trying to click up for another gear or two).
https://www.strava.com/activities/357497643 (strava includes warm up and down)
Gave it the beans as usual and got back checking my I phone Strava (I don't use a garmin yet) found it said I was over 30 seconds slower - not impressed, as it felt quite quick to me. Anyway the stop watch doesn't lie so was relieved to post a 20.16, 14 seconds quicker than my last (best) time. Gawd knows what happened to my Strava to be so far out.
My time put me 5th overall out of 21 starters with a winning time of 18.44.
Overall pretty pleased with that time with several pukka TT bike scalps! Got a standard crankset to fit replacing my compact so hopefully can gain a bit of speed down the slopes (where I tend to lose a lot spinning out in top gear trying to click up for another gear or two).
https://www.strava.com/activities/357497643 (strava includes warm up and down)
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