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Yeah but I find indoor training a lot more efficient time-wise (It takes me a good 30 minutes of riding to get any traffic clear route)

Yeah I normally drop about 10% in power in door so will factor in mind. Yeah your setback is a lot further back than both mine. My current set back is 70mm on Road and 55mm on TT.

I'm going to experiment with pushing it back 5mm now. I've spent 3 months recovering from PFPS due to v.weak glutes so hopefully a further back position will recruit them more.

Good luck for the 25 (assuming you are competing)

Cheers @danb will do. Appreciate the advice

Cheers, got the frame for cheapz and put 6800 on it a few weeks ago. Haha most wheels would save me time compared to my planet flex wheels. Yeah saddle is pretty damn far forward (I set it to KOPS initially but realise KOPS has no real grounding at all)

Think I'll push it back 10mm or so and flip the stem to get a bit higher. Yeah I've decided zwift will be reserved for the tt bike from now on. Really keen to place a bit higher in the BUCS 25 so will get on it this week.

Cheers yeah have a powermeter & found my power massively reduced (25%) in this position over a 10. Any advice would be appreciated (I realise the helmet doesn't really suit my back at all)

Ok cheers. Also do people ask for position advice (posting photos) on this page or is that considered a no no? (Considering peoples response to that sort of thing on UK timetrialling & CTT?)

Can anyone clarify why people are so pleased the 3cm rule has been scrapped? (Asides from having to sell/buy bikes to fit rule) Does it mean you can now get further forward (and open hip angle) or is it an aerodynamic thing?

You could ask for clarification from Oxford Uni / CTT? Could just be an admin/timekeeper error? My Garmin time was about 10 seconds faster than the official time on Saturday so could be worth a shout?

Yeah ok so hard to quantify I guess. I suppose I was a bit naive trying to get close to road power in my first TT. Going to try Richmond in the week & see how it goes (Worried I've caught the TT bug now!)

Not many good routes for training near me I'm afraid (Kilburn), but POC sounds about accurate for Regents park on a saturday afternoon

Yeah that's a good idea, hard to get 20 minutes of open road around London but should be able to get a decent idea with some richmond laps. Did you find the same large gap in power when you started tt'ing?

POC?

Yeah true. No use crying about it - just need to get down to Regents on the TT rig more often

True. I guess more time in the aerobars required then. Just a bit shocked yesterday to see my HR rise for such a low power

In the 4 weeks almost exclusively TT, before that nothing (TT is a new build). I understand thats not a lot of time to adapt, but didn't think the power difference would be so marked

Yeah have been training a few hours a week in it recently but will take time I guess. I have a feeling I am too low/ constricted on the bike and the position needs work. What power loss can be expected "normally"? About 10% or so?

Does anyone have any experience of getting TT power closer to Road power? I did BUCS 10 mile yesterday and suffered big time - about 80 watts lower than what I can put out on the road for that time (roughly 330). Has anyone experienced this dramatic drop in power from road to tt before?

Conditions look good for tomorrow (BUCS 10), super excited. As an aside has anyone experienced painful arches when riding? Went out earlier to spin the legs pre-tt and my whole left foot felt cramp (haven't changed position or anything) - anyone experienced this? Foam roll / stretch?

It was bromiley no? He won both 10 & 25 last year! Didn't spot him on the startlist this year either so that's good news for the hitters

Even Sub-20 would guarantee a podium at BUCS 10 no? Hoping to do a sub-22 on Saturday but that puts the field into perspective!

Tinkering with my TT position so looking for a stem to stretch me out a bit more.
Whats out there? Pref. cheaper the better (carbon not needed etc.)
Cheers!
Based in NW London, in Central Mon-Fri

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Cheers!

Cheers! Both dates look good.

Would be very keen to know this aswell (around NW london aswell!)