alex_cycles
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Yeah you can see the moment when I nearly threw in the towel in that final sprint can't you?!
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N0bodyOfTheGoat
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- Hampshire, UK
The CTT Winter Series TT is tackling the Innsbruck UCI 2018 Short Course tonight, the series only takes your best results from a limited number of rounds so still possible to get full route quotas in even if this is your first route so far.
Trying to look at strategy a little...
The frame is neutralised, but I don't know what performance it has, I presume a reasonably racey equivalent to a road frame.
But I don't think the wheels are neutralised.
Not sure, but I think a road frame will give supertuck speed benefit descending the KOM over a soft pedalling with a TT frame.
But there's ~7Km of fairly flat after the descent, where usually a TT frame gets more aero benefit from TT disc wheels.
Once upon a time, I could climb Innsbruck KOM in just over 20mins, but if I do this it will be a painful ~35mins and then I still have ~12Km of the course left to finish.
Trying to look at strategy a little...
The frame is neutralised, but I don't know what performance it has, I presume a reasonably racey equivalent to a road frame.
But I don't think the wheels are neutralised.
Not sure, but I think a road frame will give supertuck speed benefit descending the KOM over a soft pedalling with a TT frame.
But there's ~7Km of fairly flat after the descent, where usually a TT frame gets more aero benefit from TT disc wheels.
Once upon a time, I could climb Innsbruck KOM in just over 20mins, but if I do this it will be a painful ~35mins and then I still have ~12Km of the course left to finish.
alex_cycles
Guru
- Location
- Oxfordshire
The CTT Winter Series TT is tackling the Innsbruck UCI 2018 Short Course tonight, the series only takes your best results from a limited number of rounds so still possible to get full route quotas in even if this is your first route so far.
Trying to look at strategy a little...
The frame is neutralised, but I don't know what performance it has, I presume a reasonably racey equivalent to a road frame.
But I don't think the wheels are neutralised.
Not sure, but I think a road frame will give supertuck speed benefit descending the KOM over a soft pedalling with a TT frame.
But there's ~7Km of fairly flat after the descent, where usually a TT frame gets more aero benefit from TT disc wheels.
Once upon a time, I could climb Innsbruck KOM in just over 20mins, but if I do this it will be a painful ~35mins and then I still have ~12Km of the course left to finish.
Surely the climb being so long would mean that the benefit of aero/climbing wheels like the Enve Pro 65 would outweigh (haha) anything you might gain on the descent or flat from the disc?
N0bodyOfTheGoat
Über Member
- Location
- Hampshire, UK
Yeah, for some reason I was thinking start with climbing wheels and swapping to disc wheels was going to save ~15secs+, but I've now just seen the DT 65s are barely slower up the climb compared to Roval Alpinist and will only be ~10secs slower after the climb compared to the DT 85s and it takes ~15secs to do a change if all goes to plan...
New plan,
The only Halo bike (other than the Tron which I already have obviously) I would even consider trying to get would be the Specialized Project 74 (only because I'm already working on two other Specialized bikes to upgrade anyway so I'd only have to do one other low end Specialized to be in a position to get it).
Upgrading the Tron is now a waste of time if you've fully upgraded a bike like the Specialized SL8 because it doesn't really give you any performance benefit - unless you just like the look of it, in which case you could use it in very flat races when fully upgraded I suppose.
The problem is the Halo bikes will take me (and most people) literally years to unlock and upgrade, and the performance benefits aren't really worth it so you'd only really do it if you either had nothing better to do, or just really liked the look of it (that doesn't bother me at all - I'm only interested in the performance!).
alex_cycles
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- Oxfordshire
No. Sadly not this week. I had a medical appointment rescheduled to Friday and didn't get my arse in gear in time. Hopefully normal service will resume soon
alex_cycles
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100% this. SL8 for the win at the moment. Halo bikes are just for fun and of no particular interest to me.
Ok thanks I thought you left notifying us late . Hope everything goes ok at the appointmentNo. Sadly not this week. I had a medical appointment rescheduled to Friday and didn't get my arse in gear in time. Hopefully normal service will resume soon
alex_cycles
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I'm going to try and get it set up so it's on auto-repeat, but I need to get James on the case for that and this appointment has messed up my week. Once we get it set up it will just keep going which is what we want really.
