My TT steed

markos1963

Now seven years old but still faster than I am!

napoleond

will we be seeing this at the Beacon LMTT this year?

ugo.santalucia

Nice... love the silver spokes that look "bespoke"... love the "period" rear disc...

markos1963

NapoleonD wrote:

will we be seeing this at the Beacon LMTT this year?

Never sure whether to race this bike there or to stick with a road bike. Feels wrong to stick a compact on it!

markos1963

ugo.santalucia wrote:

Nice... love the silver spokes that look "bespoke"... love the "period" rear disc...

The front wheel is indeed a bespoke one. Made by Wheelsmith, with a rear to match five season ago for me. Gigantex rims on Novatech hubs with Sapim Lasers( of course someone like yourself would have known that anyway!)

ugo.santalucia

markos1963 wrote:

ugo.santalucia wrote:

Nice... love the silver spokes that look "bespoke"... love the "period" rear disc...

The front wheel is indeed a bespoke one. Made by Wheelsmith, with a rear to match five season ago for me. Gigantex rims on Novatech hubs with Sapim Lasers( of course someone like yourself would have known that anyway!)

I don't know why people prefer black spokes... shiny silver spokes with a big black rim looks the business to me.

markos1963

ugo.santalucia wrote:

markos1963 wrote:

ugo.santalucia wrote:

Nice... love the silver spokes that look "bespoke"... love the "period" rear disc...

The front wheel is indeed a bespoke one. Made by Wheelsmith, with a rear to match five season ago for me. Gigantex rims on Novatech hubs with Sapim Lasers( of course someone like yourself would have known that anyway!)

I don't know why people prefer black spokes... shiny silver spokes with a big black rim looks the business to me.

I agree, got a couple of wheel sets that came with bikes with black spokes and they all end up the same, chipped and tatty looking. At least with silver you can polish up with some solve and they look a million dollars.

napoleond

markos1963 wrote:

NapoleonD wrote:

will we be seeing this at the Beacon LMTT this year?

Never sure whether to race this bike there or to stick with a road bike. Feels wrong to stick a compact on it!

Do it!

I'm going to have a crack on my TT bike this year, last year I had a 39/29 rear gear, this year will have 36/27 if I use the TTer. I have some Wheelsmith Aero 60 wheels to use on it too...

markos1963

NapoleonD wrote:

markos1963 wrote:

NapoleonD wrote:

will we be seeing this at the Beacon LMTT this year?

Never sure whether to race this bike there or to stick with a road bike. Feels wrong to stick a compact on it!

Do it!

I'm going to have a crack on my TT bike this year, last year I had a 39/29 rear gear, this year will have 36/27 if I use the TTer. I have some Wheelsmith Aero 60 wheels to use on it too...

I've got a 11/27 cassette that I used with the compact on the road bike last year and just, just managed Ankerdine. I suppose a 39/29 would be very similar? I do fancy the idea. Coming down the A44 stretch on her with the 55/11 spinning away would be awesome, might even crack 50mph!

MountainMonster

Very cool bike indeed, and great to see that you've kept it so long. Doesn't really even look that old!

napoleond

a 39/29 falls between a 34/25 and a 34/26.

Doable...

36/27 is just a tiny (0.3 inch!) bit easier than 39/29 but I'll be lighter and fitter than last year.

ledeev

Lovely TT rig.

At the risk of sounding picky, can I ask why you've not chopped off all that spare tri-bar behind the clamps?

markos1963

Ledeev wrote:

Lovely TT rig.

At the risk of sounding picky, can I ask why you've not chopped off all that spare tri-bar behind the clamps?

Not picky at all. I tend to move position a bit when I do longer TTs like 50 & 100. I reckon I could lose a bit without sacrificing that, just need to get round to it. It was one of the reasons I fitted the Nokon style cables so I could make those adjustments easily

chrisw12

I'm not being picky either but have you thought about a different gear cable routing? I have a similar set up to you, external down tube cable and 'jagwire'. What I've done is run the cable over the bar, next to the stem, then down to the gear stops running tight to the frame rather than sticking out wide. I've also crossed the cables (twice) reason being, if you run them normal, parallel, they stick out, if you cross them, they hide better in front of the downtube. I recon this save me 50w in drag, sorry 0.50w;).

markos1963

chrisw12 wrote:

I'm not being picky either but have you thought about a different gear cable routing? I have a similar set up to you, external down tube cable and 'jagwire'. What I've done is run the cable over the bar, next to the stem, then down to the gear stops running tight to the frame rather than sticking out wide. I've also crossed the cables (twice) reason being, if you run them normal, parallel, they stick out, if you cross them, they hide better in front of the downtube. I recon this save me 50w in drag, sorry 0.50w;).

That's interesting. I have wondered about the routing. Would your suggestion allow me to raise the bars for my longer TT's? The stem is adjustable and allows me to raise the bars a fair bit.

chrisw12

Yes it would, definitely. It's one of the reasons I went this route as I'm always messing around with my position. With the cables you're using and the route I suggested, if you move the stem up or down all you're doing is changing the shape of the 's' the cables make when transitioning from the bars to the stops.

For example when you raise the stem the s becomes almost straight, when you lower it, it becomes a fat s shape, if that makes sense.

The other advantage for me is that it hides the top cap bolt a little. Mine always rusts from turbo use.

markos1963

Thanks for that. I'm about to strip and clean/service it for the coming season so will give it a go.

ledeev

The neatest solution might be to chuck all the mechanical stuff away and change to Di2.

markos1963

Extensions and cables now a lot tidier after some fiddling.