Tweaking a road bike into a TT bike temporarily?

I've got a carbon road bike for mainly sportives / the fun of riding. Just joined a local club which does weekly 10mile TT's past the end of my road. So I'm wondering about what tweaks if any are worth buying that would allow me, temporarily each week, to tweak the bike to being more of a TT machine?
I realize tuning the heavy nut on the saddle would be most beneficial, but after that?
I don't really want to change to aero bars as I don't want to reroute the cabling each week between sportive and aero setup. Is there an quick swap way?
To me that only leaves wheels, shoe covers and an aero helmet. Anything else? Another bike is out of the question until ebay relaxes its rules and lets me sell my wife or child.
Cheers,
Hove
I realize tuning the heavy nut on the saddle would be most beneficial, but after that?
I don't really want to change to aero bars as I don't want to reroute the cabling each week between sportive and aero setup. Is there an quick swap way?
To me that only leaves wheels, shoe covers and an aero helmet. Anything else? Another bike is out of the question until ebay relaxes its rules and lets me sell my wife or child.
Cheers,
Hove
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Take a look.
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=60360
That will allow you to get into the aero position and give you the biggest benefit of all. You'll need to adjust your saddle position for the bars.
Then:
Shoe covers
Skinsuit
Aero Helmet
Wheels
As tight fitting clothes as possible, maybe even some aero shoe covers and an aero helmet to shave a few seconds off too
Good point Pete... When using the extensions they raise your position above normal bars, so, for the TT's, lower or flip your stem to compensate.
Consider flipping stem, or taking out spacers, though you might get fed up of doing this week in week out.
There's a couple of guys who ride in my clubs TT with road bikes. Sometimes without aero bars and they get good times, often faster than guys with 'all the gear'.
The old adage of it all being down to the engine is so very true
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