Cruzbike Time Trial Challenge 2020
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LarryOz
Cruzeum Curator & Sigma Wrangler
Yeah I do this now - An extra pound of tools can help a lot. If you don't have a lot of steep climbing you will not even notice the weight - and think of the shoe savings!
LarryOz
Cruzeum Curator & Sigma Wrangler
Great video Rob! Loved the "I need to pass this car" part! I had a somewhat similar experience on the final TT of last years challenge: Except I dropped my chain within the last 1Km. I was flying and on par to break my PB by a significant amount. I stopped, put the chain back on and took off. A couple cyclists and a car had passed me just as I started and was trying to accelerate back up to speed. The car was being held up by some really slow cyclist that also just passed me. I had to pass the car and the cyclists - unfortunately the stop cost me over a minute and I lost out on a final PB!
Rob Lloyd
Well-Known Member
Hi everyone, I made a YouTube Playlist for all the TT Videos this year - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLogFkMYSzjgoJBNvE0Risu7hdTw-kM6L0
As I come across more, I’ll add them there. I’m pretty sure I saw at least 1 more, but can’t find it now.
As I come across more, I’ll add them there. I’m pretty sure I saw at least 1 more, but can’t find it now.
CruzLike
Guru
Rich, you freak of nature. Breaking a chain. That's some impressive power output. You must be getting in shape.
benphyr
Guru-me-not
. Silly question maybe but isn’ a quick link used to pu a chain together so if it broke a couple down from the link couldn't you remove the two links and lump home on a short chain. I’m sure you would have if you could. There must be something I’m missing.
RojoRacing
Donut Powered Wise-guy
no because a chain wouldn't cleanly break so you could just move the quick link, you'd need a chain tool to break it properly plus most quick links these days require pliers to remove them.
Same happened to me several years ago on a club TT, last of the season, short 2x4mile loop with a big roundabout. A truck passed me just as I was coming up to the roundabout, then stopped for traffic that I could have worked around, definitely cost me a PB. I do one loop of this to start this years course, and make sure I move to the middle of the lane if there is anything coming up behind me.
benphyr
Guru-me-not
Ah, that makes sense. Now I get it.
Bill Wightman
Well-Known Member
Having to deal with cars (and trains) can be improved by riding late at night. This is not for everyone and used to drive my wife crazy. If your TT route is in an area safe from drunk drivers and wildlife it can be very peaceful. Also wind speeds at about midnight are usually low or insignificant. This requires high quality flashing and solid nighttime lights fore and aft and I just started using a Garmin radar for redundancy to the mirror. I have placed lots of aft facing red retroreflector tape on my helmets.
DARYLHANGER945
Member
As I just had to walk a mile to my destination after hitting a large pothole and destroying both the front and back wheels, I save my shoes by taking them off and walking in my socks in the grass where possible and the road where not.
Rob Lloyd
Well-Known Member
At my current and previous courses, deer would be an issue. I don't want to hit one with my car, much less on my bike at 25mph...
Veinbuster
Member
I thought I should sign up to follow the challenge. I just finished my week 8 ride and took a time lapse video in case anyone was interested. I had always done this counter clockwise in the past, but go clockwise for the TT to reduce the number of left turns that might slow the pace (not that I'm very fast).
LarryOz
Cruzeum Curator & Sigma Wrangler
Great Video - You can start anytime! - I did not see any mileage on your video - but if between 11.5 and 12.5 miles - then make a segment of it and submit it for this week (or even week #7 if you did it last week)
Veinbuster
Member
Sorry to be misleading. I am in the TT already with my actual name, I just added a video of my Holland Marsh TT route.
DavidCH
In thought; expanding the paradigm of traversity
If you only have one chain for the bike then replacing the chain each year is cheaper than having to change cassettes and chainrings. If you do change the chain then I would say the probability of a chain breaking would be minimal.
LarryOz
Cruzeum Curator & Sigma Wrangler
Hi Everyone - We are a 3rd of the way through our challenge and you guys are all awesome in your rides.
Don't know about you, but it is starting to get hot down here in Hilton Head - and humid too - even at 6am!
And of course yet another fantastic week by everyone!
This week we had a total of 50 riders! (out of total roll of 70 - hrd to believe 20 people did not ride)
We welcome 1 new rider this week - LIef Zimmerman's father (don't even have his name, but he is riding one of Lief's 2 Vendetta's - They are both riding the same TT segment tha "Robert Onishi" is riding.
Some Stats:
Most improved over PB:
Congrats to Steven Kentner who beat his previous PB by 174 seconds this week! All I can say is WOW! - Avg speed of 28.15 on only 199 watts - I think you need to recalibrate your power meter Steven - either that or you were drafting behind a semi! Great job!
Points Podium: (there has been some shuffling again on the podium, but we welcome Peter as a 1st timer)
1st - Jim Parker: 249
2nd Peter Ruttan - 229.5
3rd - Andrew Thompson : 226.5
..Honorable mention (4th): still Rob Lloyd at 212.5 points
There were 28 new PB's this week - That is very incredible
32 riders have ridden all 7 weeks - dropping a few from last week
We now have only 3 riders that have PB's each of the 7 weeks - Larry, Ken and Peter. Pressure is on to keep it up!
Special mentions:
So many cool stories and videos coming out, it is hard to pic just one: (catch more info on the Cruzbike forum for this challenge:
https://forum.cruzbike.com/threads/cruzbike-time-trial-challenge-2020.13343/
Both LIef Zimmerman and Brant Baker "matched" their PB's. Can't plan that at all - Maybe next year I'll give 10 bonus points for that and have a separate category for it!
Check out Rob Llyod's video of his TT (on his newest route from week #6) - Poor guy got waylaid by more than one car during his TT. I think he is looking for yet another route now!
Here is the link to just the week #7 stats in case you want to sort and look at different stats at your leisure:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VX_DXRLP9Y3hcq6GFf218LfVaZP0asWfpjo1MCMwXJE/edit?usp=sharing
Looking forward to everyone's results for week #8.
Please remember to "name" your ride for me in case I have to search for it in your Strava feed - helps me out a lot!
Ride Hard and Stay Safe!
Larry Oslund
p.s. As always - this is a boatload of data to enter and collate - so there is probably an error somewhere - if you see one, let me know so I can correct it - Thanks
Don't know about you, but it is starting to get hot down here in Hilton Head - and humid too - even at 6am!
And of course yet another fantastic week by everyone!
This week we had a total of 50 riders! (out of total roll of 70 - hrd to believe 20 people did not ride)
We welcome 1 new rider this week - LIef Zimmerman's father (don't even have his name, but he is riding one of Lief's 2 Vendetta's - They are both riding the same TT segment tha "Robert Onishi" is riding.
Some Stats:
Most improved over PB:
Congrats to Steven Kentner who beat his previous PB by 174 seconds this week! All I can say is WOW! - Avg speed of 28.15 on only 199 watts - I think you need to recalibrate your power meter Steven - either that or you were drafting behind a semi! Great job!
Points Podium: (there has been some shuffling again on the podium, but we welcome Peter as a 1st timer)
1st - Jim Parker: 249
2nd Peter Ruttan - 229.5
3rd - Andrew Thompson : 226.5
..Honorable mention (4th): still Rob Lloyd at 212.5 points
There were 28 new PB's this week - That is very incredible
32 riders have ridden all 7 weeks - dropping a few from last week
We now have only 3 riders that have PB's each of the 7 weeks - Larry, Ken and Peter. Pressure is on to keep it up!
Special mentions:
So many cool stories and videos coming out, it is hard to pic just one: (catch more info on the Cruzbike forum for this challenge:
https://forum.cruzbike.com/threads/cruzbike-time-trial-challenge-2020.13343/
Both LIef Zimmerman and Brant Baker "matched" their PB's. Can't plan that at all - Maybe next year I'll give 10 bonus points for that and have a separate category for it!
Check out Rob Llyod's video of his TT (on his newest route from week #6) - Poor guy got waylaid by more than one car during his TT. I think he is looking for yet another route now!
Here is the link to just the week #7 stats in case you want to sort and look at different stats at your leisure:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VX_DXRLP9Y3hcq6GFf218LfVaZP0asWfpjo1MCMwXJE/edit?usp=sharing
Looking forward to everyone's results for week #8.
Please remember to "name" your ride for me in case I have to search for it in your Strava feed - helps me out a lot!
Ride Hard and Stay Safe!
Larry Oslund
p.s. As always - this is a boatload of data to enter and collate - so there is probably an error somewhere - if you see one, let me know so I can correct it - Thanks
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Maria Parker
Administrator
Larry, you are wonderful! Thank you so much for doing this.
Bill Wightman
Well-Known Member
Ditto on thank you for the hard work Larry. I have a general forum question. Until about a few weeks ago I have been pacing myself with my heart rate to max it out without going redline and so get a good time and perhaps a PR. I changed my tactic to choosing an average PR speed plus .2 to .4 mph as a goal to finish under. As I approach the start at speed, then I start my ride GPS and monitor average speed first, and heart rate second throughout the TT. This seems to be working but can be a killer in the last three or so miles. Does anyone have a better method that they would be willing to offer?
