"The 33"-Road Bike Racing - Pcad gets more aero (no it never ends)

Seat forward another cm, stem dropped another cm. Oddly, this felt MORE comfortable.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y117/patentcad/912.TTside.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y117/patentcad/912.TTfront.jpg

Fortunately I am suffciently self absorbed so that this doesn't burn me out. That's YOUR problem. With this position, Zipps (but not aero helmet today) I was .5 mph faster on a day when it was very windy. I think that might mean +1mph or so.

Silvermine here I come.

Pcad gets more aero (no it never ends)

correct.

not until you get rid of that floppy LS jersey and baggy white wool socks.

correct.

not until you get rid of that floppy LS jersey and baggy white wool socks.

Never. There is only so far Pcad will go for the sake of aero, and that ******** looking helmet is the END. I feel like Marvin the friggin Martian with that thing on my head.

http://www.officiallyscrewed.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/marvinmartian.jpg

By the way I am not taking a giant dump in that photo, that's the spare tubular tire bag which will of course not be necessary in the actual TT.

Yeah, not much point to the aero gear when you look like your getting ready for the 1st annual antartica TT.

And dont look down with that helmet on. Also, you might want to try to slide it up a little further on your head to get the tail closer to your back.

Yeah, not much point to the aero gear when you look like your getting ready for the 1st annual antartica TT.

And dont look down with that helmet on. Also, you might want to try to slide it up a little further on your head to get the tail closer to your back.

There was snow on the mtn. passes in Orange Cty this morning desert boy. 49º at Casa Pcad.

Position is looking good. It's skinsuit time. It makes a huge difference.

Never. There is only so far Pcad will go for the sake of aero, and that ******** looking helmet is the END. I feel like Marvin the friggin Martian with that thing on my head.

http://www.officiallyscrewed.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/marvinmartian.jpg

By the way I am not taking a giant dump in that photo, that's the spare tubular tire bag which will of course not be necessary in the actual TT.


with those socks you look more like Doug Funnie.

http://www.vocemeconquistou.blogger.com.br/image_2_quailman.jpg

Position is looking good. It's skinsuit time. It makes a huge difference.

Correct. It cut off all the circulation to Pcad's Procreational Zone.

Baby steps. Maybe I'll go skinsuit next year. I'm happy I won't be there on a 1974 Schwinn Varsity. Brings me right back to high school. Everybody rode these.

http://www.franksbikes.com/03.JPG

Put a 606 in back.

^ A Zipp disc is only a matter of time.

How does your helmet fit your back when in the aero position?

How does your helmet fit your back when in the aero position?

It's not a problem on the trainer. I'll let you know after I ride with it tomorrow. I'm hoping some passing pickup truck won't see me in that helmet and just spontaneously run me over. I would. I want to kill myself just looking at these photos.

Never. There is only so far Pcad will go for the sake of aero, and that ******** looking helmet is the END. I feel like Marvin the friggin Martian with that thing on my head.

http://www.officiallyscrewed.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/marvinmartian.jpg

By the way I am not taking a giant dump in that photo, that's the spare tubular tire bag which will of course not be necessary in the actual TT.

Can you at least go with ankle socks under the shoe covers? Alternatively, cut the tops off of your favorite tube socks.

Use the Pcad standard here -- it is better to look fast than be fast. The lovely socks sticking out above the shoe covers do not look fast, ergo, lose them. I neither look fast nor am fast, so I am casting stones from a glass house, however, so my opinion should be taken with a whole shaker of salt.

You put on shoe covers for a pic?

You put on shoe covers for a pic?

I put shoe covers on to prevent frostbite. When I rolled out of here @ 7AM it was 50º. When it's <55, Pcad goes PearlIzumi on his Tootsies. This photo was taken by my trusty assistant @ 10AM.

Don't you wish you had a staff to assist you in all your BF needs?

Seat forward another cm, stem dropped another cm. Oddly, this felt MORE comfortable.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y117/patentcad/912.TTside.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y117/patentcad/TTFinalSide.jpg

Fortunately I am suffciently self absorbed so that this doesn't burn me out. That's YOUR problem. With this position, Zipps (but not aero helmet today) I was .5 mph faster on a day when it was very windy. I think that might mean +1mph or so.

Silvermine here I come.


This makes it easier to compare.

Pcad. I will let you do silvermine as is, but in the future, we need to get you a different base bar.that thing eats up way too much wind. Definitely un-aero. The position is starting to look good. Let me know when you are ready to step up to a disc. The one that I have won two state championships on is up for sale because I got's me a pretty ceramic-ified zipp disc now. :)

I put shoe covers on to prevent frostbite. When I rolled out of here @ 7AM it was 50º. When it's <55, Pcad goes PearlIzumi on his Tootsies. This photo was taken by my trusty assistant @ 10AM.

Don't you wish you had a staff to assist you in all your BF needs?

i can just imagine the conversation your staff have at the watercooler.

Pcad. I will let you do silvermine as is, but in the future, we need to get you a different base bar.that thing eats up way too much wind. Definitely un-aero. The position is starting to look good. Let me know when you are ready to step up to a disc. The one that I have won two state championships on is up for sale because I got's me a pretty ceramic-ified zipp disc now. :)

When I see you @ Silvermine you can explain what a 'base bar' is. I went to college in the 70's, so to me that's a nightclub where you can do bongs of blow out back.

i can just imagine the conversation your staff have at the watercooler.

There is no watercooler at Cotsis CAD. We do however have the world's only basement office with panoramic mountain views. I'm sure they all hate me, and that gives us something in common. As long as they come to work each day that's fine.

Egads..that's a Canadian helmet.

Where is this going to go next?


One major issue with aero helmets is that they only work well in one position, and they make a huge difference. But if you look down, it's like throwing up a sail.
It's really hard to un-learn this, you have to learn not to look at your gearing, and the instinct that head down is faster. Zabriskie does this very well, he locks his head facing forward.

Wheres the powertap?

Egads..that's a Canadian helmet.

Where is this going to go next?

Perhaps to the Mexican factory where it was manufactured?

There is no watercooler at Cotsis CAD. We do however have the world's only basement office with panoramic mountain views. I'm sure they all hate me, and that gives us something in common. As long as they come to work each day that's fine.

:eek:

:eek::roflmao:


:roflmao::eek:


:beer::roflmao::eek::roflmao::beer:

But if you look down, it's like throwing up a sail.



What a negative drag. :)

It's not a problem on the trainer. I'll let you know after I ride with it tomorrow. I'm hoping some passing pickup truck won't see me in that helmet and just spontaneously run me over. I would. I want to kill myself just looking at these photos.

You wouldn't worry as much what other people thought about you if you realized how rarely they do.

You wouldn't worry as much what other people thought about you if you realized how rarely they do.

You are far too wise for Texas.

In deference to Ryanf this thread should have been entitled:

Pcad gets more aeroer

You are far too wise for Texas.

Note that he resides in Austin, which, as my students reiterated to me in class, and WR notes in his location, is a tad different than the remainder of the state.

Austin RULES.

Austin RULES.

http://www.sternpinball.com/images/austinDlogo.gif


????

In deference to Ryanf this thread should have been entitled:

Pcad getz moore arrower

Fixed it for you.

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t141/chideltfrog/austinweird.gif

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t141/chideltfrog/austinweird.gif

Yes, let's.

You wouldn't worry as much what other people thought about you if you realized how rarely they do.

I agree. It's this exact thought that gave me the courage to finally venture out in public on my bike without baggy gym shorts over my lycra years ago. Now I couldn't care less.

Who am I kidding? You do look like a martian with that helmet on. We all look like freaks in comparison to the rest of humanity.

I agree. It's this exact thought that gave me the courage to finally venture out in public on my bike without baggy gym shorts over my lycra years ago. Now I couldn't care less.

Who am I kidding? You do look like a martian with that helmet on. We all look like freaks in comparison to the rest of humanity.

Pcad has a problem surrendering his matinee-idol looks to his inner bike geek.

Austin RULES.

There's some wisdom there.

...and I'm a Colorado boy

Pcad has a problem surrendering his matinee-idol looks to his inner bike geek.

:lol:

There's some wisdom there.

...and I'm a Colorado boy

we know. even if you hadn't mentioned it previously, your literacy would have been a tip off. :D

This is how I feel with that TT helmet on.

http://www.users.waitrose.com/~magonia/dtess01s.jpg

we know. even if you hadn't mentioned it previously, your literacy would have been a tip off. :D

What? I don't talk good?

What? I don't talk good?

you write just fine, which is why we know your not a born and raised texan. ;)

This is how I feel with that TT helmet on.

http://www.users.waitrose.com/~magonia/dtess01s.jpg

helmets are cool.

http://www.elmetto.net/pics/foto/az/Buco.jpg

Perhaps to the Mexican factory where it was manufactured?

that's ok, most Americans confuse the two anyway.

New Garneau for 08...made on Venus.

http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~aac65140/images/bigchap/0018.jpg

adiós

DocRay, your valuable contributions to BF know no bounds. I nominate you for the BF Lifetime Pinhead Medallion. You can sit at the table with botto.

wha?
I missed something here, when the heck did you get an aero helmet?
no threads on THAT subjet?:p

wha?
I missed something here, when the heck did you get an aero helmet?
no threads on THAT subjet?:p

Silence Earth Woman.

http://www.users.waitrose.com/~magonia/dtess01s.jpg

Ill zip it ( not that kind of zipp silly) but Ill keep an eye on you.. one of them anyway.

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/blonduathlongrl/wp-martian-6-m.jpg

I'm interested in TTing. How much does an aero helmet help? I would assume a skin suit makes a bigger difference. ?

This is how I feel with that TT helmet on.

http://www.users.waitrose.com/~magonia/dtess01s.jpg

The resemblance is actually . . . quite . . . ehhhhhhh . . . striking.

From this point forward, I shall never compete in another TT or attempt to look the part. I might even give up cycling altogether now. Lycra really isn't attractive after all. Not on men at least...

;)