#152: TT position
I was looking at some photographs that Mark Allen took of me out on CD Smith Rd. during the 4 mile TT (part of the Smith & Nephew / Marx & Bensdorf Gran Prix). He was down by the start and the finish, so I have two photos to compare. My start photo is pretty good showing more or less that I was settling into the correct position (although I am looking down change gears in this photo).
At the end of the 4 miles, I have obviously poured it on at the end up the slight grade to the finish, but it clear that I have let my position slip.
The state 40 km TT is this Saturday, and I can see that I need to lower my stem some, but it sort of late to make big changes. I might try to move the 25 mm aero spacer to the top of the bar on Wednesday to see if I could tolerate it. That would put my integrated bar right down on the headset. I would need to get a different, probably TT specific frame to go any lower…
Another sort of annoying problem is the Vision Tech brake caps. They started to pop off on me (I had to chase one down on a busy road a few weeks back). I ended up just using a bit of electrical tape to keep them on the bike…
