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Old 03-04-19, 07:08 AM
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burnthesheep
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A nice local team/group put on an early season fitness test TT ride. It was fun, nice folks.

It was a stacked deck that two of us had TT bikes, but their guy took fastest and I took 2nd fastest time. I was pleased with my time, 23mph avg with 400ft in 8.5mi. It was a tad windy.

My remaining complaint is that I still can't really bury it on the TT bike like the road bike. It's a LOT closer in power now. But still not there at all. Still down about 30ish watts on potential.

This time if I take out the slow corners I coasted I avg'd about 255 to 260. I can do 300 at 20min in road position.

Still was a good time. Lots of time and workouts needed to get the speed up. Also, gotta ditch the 175 cranks on it. I'm 5' 9" and they feel good on the road bike, but on the TT bike that length feels like total ass (hip angle).

I may sell the power meter and go for a pedal based system and get the roadie down to 172.5's again and the TT down to 165's or 170's.
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