I pride myself on riding a bit of everything. My primary background is XC mtb from BITD, then a load of cyclocross, more recently the focus has been on road and track - competitively I mostly do track. For all that variety I have done very little TTing! Next weekend I am doing an (old school 6 event…

Hi @sssam I do mainly TTing and some track pursuit. There is not much I can deduce but three ideas from my observation of your picture and my limited experience. You look pretty aero for the track (assuming that your head position works for your helmet, and you can get the power down) Can you ac…

Thanks for the thoughts Phil! Yes, this is pretty much purely for the track, though I am thinking it would be beneficial to do a few local 10s once summer rolls around. I think I can see OK, as I can angle my head back from what you can see in the pic. I have a Kask Bambino helmet and NoPinz skinsui…

[image] The Bike Fitting Mega-Thread Equipment This is a primary thread to discuss Bike Fitting methods and issues. I will edit this lead post with useful links for starters. Feel free to post your questions and issues, and we will do our best to address them. A bit ab…

Sounds fine. My arms are apart, as are my elbows, and my bars (4" between them) but I cup my hands over the ends of the bars, one hand on top if the other. I think it acts to smooth the air over the front piece… I don’t need rotational adjustment to do that. A lot of the really fast guys are usi…

[image] PhilSJones: Can you actually see up the road for TTing? (but as you are mainly talking pursuit and track and only need to follow the black line, this may not matter.) This is the first thing that occurred to me. If you do TT on the road, then you may need to raise your bars up if tha…

@sssam don’t forget to shrug. And keep the knees in. That’s all I’ve got. Wish I looked that good!

Had another look this morning and a thought occurs to me. It looks like to achieve a low position at the front, you’re not bending enough from the waist but folding your back in the middle. Which could - potentially - be restricting your ability to breathe and put power out. I would try doing a 5 m…

Thanks for the feedback @martinheadon - I’ll gìve that a go. You are right that I am not as flexible in the hips as I’d like to be, though I’m working on it… Will do some testing by bringing the front end up, loathe to change saddle height though.

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I have no input, but there is already a bike fitting thread that might have info for you.

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