You have a training programme, and yet you smoke. There is a profound conflict going on there. Either you are taking riding seriously, or you aren't, and handicapping yourself by smoking suggests that your training and your results aren't as important to you as you would have us believe.
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Rob3rt
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You don't need a TT bike, or the gear, to do a TT. You just compare your results with the guys of a similar age and on similar gear to you. There are people in my club doing 27 minute TTs on 30 year old steel frame fixies: and they're 60+.
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Smoking doesnt impede performance other than slowing recovery.mikeG post: 3093851 said:
Yeah righto. You've got some science behind that big statement, have you?
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JasonHolder
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Great. Ill get back to you once I've been riding for 8 weeks OK?
Actually, I'd be quite pleased if you didn't.
KneesUp
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We have five bikes in our family. Your crankset alone costs more than I paid in total for all five bikes. Don't use equipment as an excuse - especially when it's perfectly decent.
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No ive got run times
Saluki
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I didn't have anything funky to race on way back when, certainly not a TT bike. Alloy frame, 10 speed shifters on the down tube and so on and so forth. My Defy is way more up to date, I'd have done much better with it. Even so, it was a trick bit of kit back then. You don't need a TT bike. Club TTs can be very much a 'run what you brung' affair
Saluki
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Really? State your source.
But what can you compare them against, Jason? You have no way of knowing what those times would have been if you didn't smoke.
ayceejay
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What GPS device do you have Jason. Remember you were going to buy a HRM the other day (when you bought the tyres) did you look at a Garmin that can do both?
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Oh really... Hows that going for you? If its not apparent already, I'm not interested in riding average. I'm interested in breaking people. Can't be done by me in TT
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True. Fair enough. But Any better times and I'd be making my way to the Olympics. So matters notMikeG said:
