TT bike building adventure

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Hello everyone. I'm running the marathon this year (more of that later) so while I'm concentrating on the hated running I'm going to build up a tt bike. I'd like to know if anyone has any parts for sale or any advice on where to look for tt stuff particularly. Experience grubbing around with various fixies has taught me it's often difficult finding things once one leaves the safe confines of road bike land. Cheers,

Oli

PS any tips on what's good to look out for etc etc all appreciated too. I'm rather new to this whole geared bike thing.

[Mrfish2]

I have some all-in-one Cinelli Angel bars which may suit, available for much less than I bought them for.

Simple approach is to start with a road bike which is too small to ride as a road bike and therefore a good fit on tri bars, then put tri bars and pimpy wheels on it.

More complex approach is to read the BCF rules on TT position, measure how low your elbows will go while being able to pedal powerfully, then calculate your ideal position and have a bike built to spec.

Somewhere between the two normally works.

[Oli]

Oh aye?

How much for the bar/stem combo? Including shifters/levers?

I picked up a brakeset and full chainset at the jumble on sunday so it's all coming together nicely, frame arrives on tuesday...

Oli ([e-mail])

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If you want to get low on the front, which is the key to going fast, you will need to put your saddle further forward than on your road bike. It's then a lot easier to rotate your hips, get low and still pedal strongly. It's one of the reasons time trial frames have much steeper seat tubes than a road frame (76-78 degrees compared to 72 to 74).