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carpediemracing
The bike as I'll probably race it for the 500m. This picture from this past Saturday. Experimented with a couple bars, stems, lots of experimenting with gearing. Ridden on two tracks.
NEV which is shallow banked and about as informal as doing track in your yard as can be - like if you had a big yard and a dozen truckloads of cement that's what you might come up with - and TTown which is the absolute opposite. At NEV the concrete is normal road concrete, so coarse and such, with cracks like a normal road might have. There's not enough banking to hold speed at neutral steering input, so you have to really turn hard to stay on the track. And I mean literally - if you go too fast you end up going up the bank and over the tire wall fence. I never felt comfortable doing a 100% jump there because I felt like I'd go up and over the wall.
At TTown it's how fast you can go that limits your speed. I forgot that the surface is like sheetrock, slight texture but otherwise absolutely smooth. Super fast. Huge difference from NEV.
Zipp stem to fit the 7VRN bars properly. I got an extra custom road stem (the -32 deg 14.5 cm ones) to use with a road bar but it's too short in reach, even though the Dolan and my Tsunamis are essentially identical in sizing. I have yet to experiment with toe straps on the pedals.
Last day at TTown, Sat morning racing Aug 28, 2021.
That looks like a great build for the 500m. 1 note, though. I’d recommend trading out the Adamo saddle for a long standard saddle like the Arione classic.
Why? The Adamo is designed to be used in a TT aerobar position while riding on the “sit bones”. This is difficult to get (and stay) perched there while doing a full-gas, anaerobic effort. Also, there is a tendency for riders to scoot forward “on the rivet” what at max exertion. You cannot do that with the Adamo.