Originally Posted by
androidtt
I went with 4Nm because of thinking that 5Nm would be too high for my aerobars (5Nm max). Hit a slight crack in the road and I was suddenly looking a inch further down at my wheel.
I prefer to just go to the max now.
Ha ha; that happened to me in the British university TTT championship several years back - except the whole handlebar assembly rotated down at the stem by about 30 degrees. TT bars pointed down at that angle are true terror when you're inches off a teammates' wheel. Then it turned out I'd picked up a slow flat at the same time... Got the wheel change but it was all pretty much game over for us by that point.
(Though we thankfully didn't DFL... and our university's other squad - we were definitely the 'B team' - took silver so we could still party.)