recneps

Wednesday I road the Lowes TT series again, after a serious mishap last time resulting a a broken fork and having to rebuild a complete bike from plain parts in a parking lot in 30 minutes to ride a crappy time after no warm up the owner of the shop who I ride for asked that I focus on the TT and taper for it to do well so I did. No training crit the day before to toast my legs a good warm up, no drinking the night before - that kind of thing.

I race is a 1.5m loop 7 times cutting off the last lap it ends up being 10 miles, a 50 year old guy is the only one in my category that been beating me this year, only by like 4 seconds last time.

We get to the track early and the wind is horrible - 15mph+ gust and it starts to rain a little during my warm up. My legs feel like **** from standing on them at work all day. Warm up goes well, rain clears wind dies down a little. I roll right to the start line and go off in 30 seconds. LT is 181 I ride the first 3 laps averaging 190 and 28.5mph, then I totally loose concentration on the 4th lap fall 5 beat below my lawerence taylor and ***** that 50 guy comes flying past me, I know he started behind me thats not good. I catch up to him and we ride bars to bars for 2 laps serisouly drag racing. It was pretty granly, I turn up the gas and leave him, he started at least 15 seconds behind me so hes made that up. he slowely brings be back until the last lap where we drag raced for the finish, he ended up around ~20 seconds ahead of me, freaking old guys.

But I was only 20 seconds slower than my PR which was set with sbsolutly no wind, and the wind was 7-8mph when I raced, so not horrible. I ended up averaging 27 mph and 186bpm, I definatly went out pretty hard. I also fell smack in the middle of the 3s.

The new rig for anyone who is interested.



The saddle to bar drop is 8"s of gnarlyness.

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Snuffleupagus

Nice, it'll be cool to see how much, if any, faster you are when you get on a geared TT rig.

bvfrompc

Just a question. Why would anyone build this bike with such a relaxed seat tube angle that you would need a forward post? Its not like they were trying to be UCI legal with the thing.

More to the point of the post, wow, nice work.

recursive

That bike is crazy. What is it?

KendallF

Cheetah, I believe. Very cool build, BTW. I like the pictures in the shop, sans front wheel..whaddaya do with all that hair when you TT, put it in a bun in the back of the helmet? (Yes, I'm bald, before you ask..)

recneps

The bike was actuatly built for someone much larger than me, we used that to shorten the bike up. You cant really see it but the stem is actuatly really short also. I was fitted on a bike my size but the shop thought this would be a better promotion for them,

the bike is a hotta track bike (92 I believe) built for a rider on team saturn it was the back up bike for him, he actuatly set the US hour record on the bikes sister.

recneps

thats from the fitting, nah I just stick it up in my TT helmet.

YATES

that bike is sick. don't know if i like the color of the front tire though.

Retro Grouch 

I sure hope that your family's complete.

George

That, and a chiropractor, would work out for me.

Dr. Bill

So who was the "old guy"? Bob C. maybe?

recneps

Nope, I'm waaay to young to have kids, but as I start to approach 400+ miles a week I'm starting to worry about it.

Yeah, he's wicked fast.

Dr. Bill

I know--he wears us out on the weekly Thursday night hammerfest here in South Carolina.

Dr. Bill

patentcad

That is the sickest racing bike in BF history. You leave Pcad speechless.

No wisecracks pursuant to that last comment, please.