The TT Thread

[Dinamo]

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/iforpowell/SRC10_26_05_2010?feat=directlink#5475677574866151986

Click the link for a picture of me last Wedsnesday riding the Severn RC Evening 10 managed a time of 25:03 my fastest this year !
Still way down on my PB of 24:26 set last July.

[Rhys W]

That Avonlea guy on the red and white Colnago did our open event at Abercarn a few weeks ago. I chatted to his friend at the start line, he was riding his friend's old Colnago frame, of which I was very envious!

[Tim Hall]

This week I'm at the tandem club rally at Ringmer. As part of the festivities, Lewes Wanderers allocated a few slots for Tandem Club members in their evening 10. I and a friend borrowed a Chas Roberts from a local bloke and had a go. And won the Tandem Club section! 26: 13. Gobsmacked.

[Russell]

And won the Tandem Club section! 26: 13. Gobsmacked.

If we had been there I would have been happy with evens - very well done Tim!

Better weather today is it?

R

[clarion]

Which was nice </Fast Show>

Great stuff!

[Fixedwheelnut]

Date             Distance/Time         Course type       Weather conditions            Bike ridden               

05/07/06           10mls/26.39        Rolling  Q10/26     cleardry           Raleigh 76" gear
12/07/06            10 mls/25.38      rolling Q10/26      clear dry          Raleigh 86" gear
21-22/07/07   24hr TT/334           rolling                   cold drizzle     Lambert 72" gear
15/08/07         10mls/26.45      rolling Q10/26      clear dry            Lambert 72" gear
30/03/08         9mls/29.37       Hillyish Qs/30        wet                    Lambert 79" gear 
20/04/08        10mls/28.42    Hillyish Q10/3      dry and cold          Lambert 79" gear
26/04/08        10mls/27.09      rolling Q10 /22   warm & sunny      Lambert 76" gear
25/06/08        10mls/27.24        rolling  Q10/26     hot/windy         Lambert 76" gear
28/06/08           10mls/27.16    Hillyish Q10/3      dry and hot        Lambert 79" gear
9/7/08             9mls/30,23      Hilly QS 30   pouring down/windy RonCooper71.22"gear
23/07/08       10mls/ 25.33  rolling Q10/26  hot & windy                  Graham Weigh  83" gear
26/07/08       10mls/25.30  flat      Q10/24   hot /windy                   Graham Weigh 83" gear 
29/07/08       10mls /25.40  rolling  Q10/26  hot slight wind             Graham weigh 83" gear
6/8/08           10mls / 25.10    rolling Q10/26  hot                            Graham Weigh  88" gear
13/08/08       10mls/26.0   rolling    Q10/26  very windy                      Graham Weigh 88" gear
19/04/09       10mls/27.01  rolling   Q10/18  cold/windy                     Graham Weigh  88" gear
25/04/09       10mls/25.28     flat    Q10/19     slight wind                   Graham Weigh    83" gear
20/05/09       10mls/26.07  rolling  Q10/26  slight wind/warm           Graham Weigh 83"gear
30/05/09       10mls/25.39  rolling  Q10/22  warm/cross wind            Graham Weigh  83" gear
03/06/09       10mls/25.14  rolling  Q10/26  warm                              Graham Weigh 83" gear
10/06/09       10mls/25.34  rolling  Q10/26  cool/ slight wind             Graham Weigh 83" gear
17/06/09        10mls/25.20  rolling         Q10/26 cool/windy               Graham Weigh 88" gear
21/06/09        10mls/25.25           rolling Q10/18  warm                     Graham Weigh 88" gear
24/06/09        10mls/25.05 rolling Q10/26 warm                     Graham Weigh 88" gear
 05/07/09        25mls/1:05:34       rolling Q25/8 hot                          Graham Weigh 88" gear
15/07/09        10mls/25.45  rolling Q10/26 windy   Graham Weigh  83" gear
19/07/09        25mls/1.08.22  rolling Q25/20 windy Graham Weigh 83" gear
01/08/09        10mls/26.02  flattish Q10/24 bloody windy  Graham Weigh 88" gear
05/08/09        10mls/25.11    Q10/26 rolling/warm   Graham Weigh 88" gear
19/08/09        10mls/25.15      Q10/18  rolling/hot      Graham Weigh  88" gear
20/09/09        25/1:09:50  G25/89 rolling, damp     Raleigh Ti Proffessional 14speed
11/04/10        9.5mls/28:07   QS/30  Hilly/cold           Lambert Proffessional  76" gear
24/04/10       10mls/25.47   Q10/19  flat with a drag dry/mild   Graham Weigh 88" gear
 19/05/10      10mls/26.14  Q10/26 cool/ breeze  Graham Weigh 88" gear
26/05/10      10mls/25.51  Q10/26   cool breeze  Graham Weigh  90.5" gear
02/06/10      10mls/24.58  Q10/26   warm/breeze   Graham Weigh 90.5" gear
15/06/10      10mls/25.50   Q10/29 flat       warm/windy   Graham Weigh 90" fixed
17/06/10      10mls/25.15  Q10/29  Flat     warm/windy   Graham Weigh  90.5" gear
23/06/10      10mls/25.32  Q10/26    Rolling warm/windy Graham Weigh  90.5" gear
07/07/10      10mls/24:53  Q10/26     Rolling warm/breeze Graham Weigh 90.5" gear
14/07/10      10mls/25:44  Q10/26  rolling/cool/windy Graham Weigh 90.5" fixed
15/07/10      9.5mls/27:33 QS/30   Hilly breezy           Lambert Proffessional 76" gear
18/07/10      23.4mls/1:05:41 Q25/20 modified hilly  Graham Weigh 90" fixed
21/07/10      10mls/25:14    Q10/26  hilly breezy      Raleigh Banana 94" fixed
28/07/10      10mls/25:12    Q10/26  hilly/breezy      Raleigh Banana 94" fixed
11/08/10      10mls/24:56   Q10/26  Hilly/calm         Raleigh Banana 85" fixed
15/08/10      50mls/2h:22m:25sec Q50/1 hilly/windy Raleigh Banana 85" fixed
05/09/10      12hour/190.03mls Q12/1   rolling/windy   Raleigh Banana  85" fixed
26/09/10    25mls/1:08:38  G25/53 Cold/windy brake rubbing Raleigh Banana 85" fixed
09/04/11    10mls/24;38  Q10/19  cool no wind   Raleigh Banana 85" fixed Personal Best
02/06/10      10mls/24.58  Q10/26   warm/breeze   Graham Weigh 90.5" gear
04/05/11  10mls/27:12  Q10/26  slight breeze  Holdsworth Typhoon 72" gear
11/05/11   10mls/26:04   Q10/26 warm       Holdsworth Typhoon 84" gear
25/05/11  10mls/25:48  Q10/26 warm   Holdsworth Typhoon  84" gear
 31/05/11   10mls/25:06  Q10/24 warm/ windy Raleigh Team Professional 84" gear
 01/06/11  10mls/25:08  Q10/26  cool      Raleigh Team Professional 84" gear
 07/06/11  10mls/25:54  Q10/24 windy  Raleigh Team Proffesional 84" gear
03/07/11 25mls/1:03:20  Q25/10 warm  Raleigh Team Proffessional 97" gear
13/07/11  10.4mls/31:21  QS/30 warm/hilly    Unknown 531C tourer 73" gear
19/07/11  10mls/24:42  Q10/24  cool/slight wind  Raleigh Team Proffessional 97" gear
24/07/11  10mls/24:36  warm/slight wind Raleigh Team Proffessional 97" gear
27/07/11  10mls/24:20 slight breeze Raleigh Team Proffessional 97" gear
02/08/11  10mls/23:58  Q10/24 slight wind  Raleigh Team Proffessional 97" fixed gear
14/08/11  50mls/2:23:17 Q50/1 hilly Raleigh Team Proffessional 86" fixed gear
16/08/11 10mls/24:32  Q10/24/ Windy to turn Raleigh Team Professional 97" fixed
18/08/11 9.5mls/27:57 Q30S/very windy & raining & hilly Raleigh Team Professional 84" fixed

02/06/10      10mls/24.58  Q10/26   warm/breeze   Graham Weigh 90.5" gear
 A Personal Best tonight and my first time under 25 mins, I kept the big gear on and decided to push as hard as I could to the turn and new I was doing better with 20.5mph average up to the turn and just buried myself on the way back.
 Got the speed wobble again at 39 but relaxed and held it and it didn't get worse so rode with it.
 I was literally coughing across the line and couldn't even shout my number

 I'll have to try and stay under 25 now.

[Jasmine]

First 25 of the season on Tuesday.  Hilly course on the A5 on Anglesey.  I rode 1 h 12 m 16 s, which was ok, but not great.  Mid-field pretty much.  Winner came in at 58 minutes.  At least it's practise for doing the same course again next week.

[Dinamo]

Last Sunday I took part in the SomerValley CC Hardrider event 21 miles along the A361 from 2 miles east of Shepton Mallet and along the Frome by-pass. A tailwind and a largely downhill first 10 miles in 23:30 however the last 11 miles was a much slower 38 minutes  into a head wind and largely uphill ! Tried my hardest to beat the hour, but just couldn't manage it 
The fastest rider (who passed me with ease ) finished in 48 minutes winning by 2 seconds !!!

[David Martin]

Club open 10 tonight. Windy, draggy and a bit lumpy at times. Meigle - Coupar Angus - Meigle.

I was first man off. Got held up by a lorry at the turn and died a thousand deaths on the return leg.

Ended up with a far faster time than expected at 28.22.

Mr Noodley was also there. He clocked 28.23 and I think he may be out for revenge at the next showdown.

[Fixedwheelnut]

Previous results
http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=229.msg635834#msg635834

15/06/10  10mls/25.50   Q10/29 flat       warm/windy   Graham Weigh 90" fixed

Tonight was a bit windy and a different course for me, I went down to the Southborough & District Wheelers evening 10 at East Peckham on the Q10/29 not as hard as the West Kingsdown course as it is flatter but then less top speed a s well.
Turned in a 25.50, there is another one on Thursday night I'll see if I can have another go.

[Jasmine]

Last week was a bit of a roadworks blowout for TT here.  Wednesday's Gwynedd cycle association open 25 was cancelled due to roadworks and the course for the Rhos on Sea 10 has been altered to a horrible hill thing so I decided it wasn't worth the travel for a super-crap time.  Holyhead 10 on Sunday morning --> lesson #342 of TT - do not give blood the day before a TT.  I was really suffering whole distance.  Finished with 27.10 so not overly happy about that. 

Hilly-ish 8 last night at Brynsiencyn.  21.27, which turned out to be a PB despite felling like I'd been hit with a brick.  Best time of the night was 17.30 - a clear 2 minutes 20 seconds ahead of anyone else!  I'm a bit perplexed that the 4 other ladies started numbers 1-4 and then I got #15.

[Rhys W]

Just back from the Port Talbot Wheelers 4-up 25. We lost one of our riders as we finished our warmup and rolled to the start - he was looking at his computer instead of the road and rode right up against the kerb, the wheels got "sucked in" and he went flying into the hedge. We were 5 mins from our start, he was shaken up so we told him to give it a miss if he didn't feel like it. Turns out he couldn't pedal anyway as he'd  bruised his thigh. So, we took the start line as a 3-up...

The rest of us worked well together, I felt very powerful during my turns and we ended up with 1:02:37, pretty happy with that considering we were only at 75%.

[Fixedwheelnut]

17/06/10   10mls/25.15  Q10/29  Flat     warm/windy   Graham Weigh  90.5" gear

 Still windy but second time on this course mean't I could pace myself better and pull back another 40 seconds from Tuesdays effort.

previous results;
http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=229.msg635834#msg635834

[valkyrie]

A quick question on entering an English TT. I've just joined the vets and I'm looking at a CTT entry form for the first time. There's a box for "Member of VTTA Group" which I presume I fill in with "Scotland" but there's no space for my VTTA membership number. Is it just not required?

[Lucky]

First TT in 2 years tonight. Fast course (F2A/10), but I was on a road bike. No official time yet, but my computer tells me I rode 24:38 for a 24.4 mph average speed. Pleased with that!

[MattH]

Did my second TT yesterday, mainly because my son (13) wanted to give it a go.

He did really well, coming in last (as he expected) but giving it a good ride. There were compliments from some of the old boys on how well he was riding and holding his line, and he is keen to go again 

The timekeeper queried if I'd actually done a double loop of the bypass (which I had, it's only 3 miles) as I came in a solid 2nd place, riding my mudguard, dynohub and racked up steel audax bike    (I did "cheat" by not leaving my nelson longflap on!).  Admittedly some of the seriously fast lads were out at Woking watching the racing instead of riding.

[Ian H]

A quick question on entering an English TT. I've just joined the vets and I'm looking at a CTT entry form for the first time. There's a box for "Member of VTTA Group" which I presume I fill in with "Scotland" but there's no space for my VTTA membership number. Is it just not required?

No. They just need the name of your CTT affiliated club.

[David Martin]

A quick question on entering an English TT. I've just joined the vets and I'm looking at a CTT entry form for the first time. There's a box for "Member of VTTA Group" which I presume I fill in with "Scotland" but there's no space for my VTTA membership number. Is it just not required?

No. They just need the name of your CTT affiliated club.

Or BC affiliated club in the Scottish region. There is a reciprocal arrangement.

..d

[Fixedwheelnut]

First TT in 2 years tonight. Fast course (F2A/10), but I was on a road bike. No official time yet, but my computer tells me I rode 24:38 for a 24.4 mph average speed. Pleased with that!

Lucky!  "That's more than lucky"

A few weeks back in the TTs and you will be under 24 minutes 

[Fixedwheelnut]

23/06/10   10mls/25.32  Q10/26    Rolling hot/windy Graham Weigh  90.5" gear

 Still getting the 38mph speed wobble, had a look at the rear wheel after a few recommendations  and it looks like the Tub is out of shape at least 4-5mm out of round so a new tub is on the menu.

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[Palinurus]

Haven't really got going this year, few club 10s, one VTTA event (flattish DC course, cold, breezy, 25 minutes-ish sort of time), did manage a 23:46 on the club course early in the season and have got slower ever since.

Club hilly yesterday, around 19 miles. Was on target for getting close to last years time but on the second lap I somehow managed to start the climb in the big ring. Panting like crazy trying to keep on top of a way too large gear and going 6 mph. Never really got it back together after that. First lap 17:10, second 17:50 third similar to second. Last year 17:00, 17:10, 17:12. Came fourth, but only 15 starters and over three minutes down on the winner.

[mattc]

First TT in 2 years tonight. Fast course (F2A/10), but I was on a road bike. No official time yet, but my computer tells me I rode 24:38 for a 24.4 mph average speed. Pleased with that!

I've only just realised that there is a 'magic number' for 10 miles:
24.4949mph = 24.4949minutes (24.5 is pretty close)  [square root of 600, to be precise ]

I can't think of a use for this at the moment ...

[Tom]

Have entered my first 12hr next weekend - promoted by Icknield RC.  Anyone got any experiences of it?  I'm told it's pretty flat and the first 93 miles looks to bear that out - it's up and down a 15 mile section of the A1!

I got back into cycling last year through audax and did LEL, suffered like a dog and swore I'd never do it again.  However, the cycling bug had well and truly reawakened in me and I've become totally obsessed with racing.  I've done some okay times on my road bike (with tri bars and smurf hat), but have now 'invested' heavily in a blinged up tt bike and am hoping for some payback.  Based on 22'27 for 10, 59'50 for 25 and 2h03 for 50, all on 'sporting' Sussex courses, what do peope think is a reasonable target for a flattish 12?

Thanks.

[Dinamo]

My PB from last season on the Severn RC Evening 10 UC186 is 24:26
Haven' t managed to better that this year......yet !

14 April                   25:12
5 May                     26:04         very windy
26 May                    25:03        thunderstorm
9 June                     24:52        
16 June                   25:26        n.e wind
22 June                   25:17        s.w. wind

[mattc]

Based on 22'27 for 10, 59'50 for 25 and 2h03 for 50, all on 'sporting' Sussex courses, what do peope think is a reasonable target for a flattish 12?

If you had some 'flat' course times, then i'd go look at the 10/25/50 PBs of riders who rode the Icknield 12 last year.

Without that data it's imposible even to guess - I suppose you could guess a lower limit, give yourself an easy target