Originally Posted by
valygrl
As a beginning racer planning to do a couple TT's next year on a road bike, I'm following along here.... Wondering if anyone has any advice on how to pick clip-on aerobars for my road bike and how to adjust the bike position, or should I just start down the trial and error path? BTW - I'm female and very short so I imagine there's a size component.
thanks
Buy used bars so you can re-sell them at no loss if you're wrong.
One basic fit element I use is that my hip angle in the road position is a good guideline for the TT position. This means that when I rotate my torso down into the bars, in order to maintain that angle, I need to rotate my legs back (feet back). To do this on a bike, you move the saddle forward.
My road-bike TT position used a Profile FastForward seatpost, so I just kept a saddle on that guy with tape so I knew where to leave it. For a TT, I'd bolt on my TT bars, then just swap seatposts real fast.
There are a lot of TT position threads, so spend some time searching (probably easiest through Google than BF search -- just search for something like "
site:www.bikeforums.net TT position" This will lead to an archived version of the given thread, but you can always go to the original with a link just above the thread.