TT Bike

[Paul H]

Im thinking about building a TT bike.

Any advice in respect to what frame/components i should get would be appreciated. I will probably look for 2nd hand stuff on ebay to keep costs reasonable.

Thanks

[Dominic]

E-bay is good if you have a lump sum to spend at one go. I ended up getting my stuff bit by bit as that was how I had the money. My bike is a mixture of Tiagra/105 while Ribble were selling stuff cheap. My first set of wheels I got from Planet X for £99 (Reynolds Alta comp) again then they were selling off stuff. As I said on Wednesday I got my Cougar frame for £65. The quality of components, apart from wheels, doesn't need to be very high I believe as they don't get the pounding a road bike takes. Apart from early season races the majority of the time you are racing on roads with reasonable/good surfaces.

Like all things cycling there are various schools of thoughts. I believe that if you have a good position, wheels and pointy hat (and legs of course) then you can achieve what you want. The aero profile of tubes, seat pin etc etc just isn't that important to me at the moment. The only thing I would change with mine at the mo is to put a carbon fork on it. If you google things like TT frame sizing, aero dynamics etc there is plenty of stuff. To be fair I got a lot of my thinking from articles in Cycling Plus that showed it from a cheap perspective to the expensive one. I still have them if you want to borrow them.

If you go to the CTT website and log onto the Invision forum there is plenty of helpful advice from people who have been doing it for a long time (including national medal holders past and present) and a for sale section where things always seems reasonable.

If you want to borrow my bike at somepoint you are more than welcome. Having ridden RichV's (old) TT bike it certainly doesn't ride as nice as that but it gets the job done

[Andrew G]

[quote="Dominic"]and legs of course

[Marek]

http://www.totalcycling.com/index.php/p ... _P2SL.html

This looks nice, is Alu, but aero.

Is this for your forray into the world of triathlon?

Cheers

Marek....

[Andrew G]

That is nice Marek, it's a top TT frame and the one John Lovell has upgraded too. Would make for quite an expensive build up though (integrated tri-bars don't come cheap), I thought Paul was after a more budget build. Nowt wrong with Alu.

[John the old'un]

[quote="Andrew G"]That is nice Marek, it's a top TT frame and the one John Lovell has upgraded too. Would make for quite an expensive build up though (integrated tri-bars don't come cheap), I thought Paul was after a more budget build. Nowt wrong with Alu.

[carl f]

I was/am in the same situation paul. But i havn't got the patience to wait for deals on e-bay etc,then build it all up
I looked at poss buying a frame then building from there but by the time i have bought all the bits inc some nice aero wheels i figured it wold be around a grand +.So now thinking of going for the planet x stealth 105 or ultegra build and adding the px 50's
That cervelo frame marek looks fab and a good price
Andrew,what did you pay for the px 50's?,did you get them second hand?
by the way,sorry for highjacking your thread paul
Carl

[Andrew G]

I got them 2nd hand but brand new and never used, hadn't even had tape/glue applied to the rim. The bloke got them in the PX sale and then started to worry about weight issues as he was a big fella. I got them for £350. Think they are about £500 new.

[carl f]

Bargain!
Carbon rims?
Tubs or clinchers?

[Paul H]

Cheers for the replies.

What do you think of this as a starter?

[url]http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12561973[/url]

[Marek]

Sounds pretty good for the dosh. Wheels will need upgrading and you may want to upgrade the brakes. Are you happy with 9 speed, what have you got on your other bikes?

Cheers

Marek...

[Marek]

FOR SALE: Massi Aluminium (6023) aero TT/Road/Triathlon Bike (pictured right). 56cm CTC, top tube 54cm CTC. £690 + P&P or pick up. This bike could be used for any of the above. It rides really great, is light and super stiff. It has a well maintained used Dura Ace 9spd groupset of which the chain, brake pads and rear mech are brand new. The wheels are spinnery rev x which look great, are true with no dings or scratches. Also the tyres and tubes are new. Pretty much everything on the bike is in the best of condition. Please call if you have any questions/need more pictures and Ill be happy to provide. Call Cameron on 07809148368. The bike is in SW London, viewings can be arranged.

This was on the BCF classifieds page, 13 March, looks pretty good. Maybe too big for you?

Cheers

MArek....

[Ian A4size]

Carl,

I think the px wheels only come in tubs- i maybe wrong tho'.

I think Paul is around my height so a 53/54cm TT frame would fit. I guess a 56 frame would be a bit big.

Dom is a lot taller than me( and quicker, and thinner- plus he has his own hair- and teeth) so i guess he rides a 56/57cm?

[Andrew G]

The Giant could well be a good starter / base for the bike. Would depend on what pics looked like but for that price you couldn't really go far wrong. With them you'd want to know the effective top tube length as they are a compact geometry so the seat tube doesn't give much of an indication to the frame size.

9 speed shouldn''t be an issue Marek as 9 speeds would be more than enough for TTs, even a weakling like myself doesn't use that bigger range of gears. The only possible one I can think of is replacing or upgrading at a later date you'd be reliant on 2nd hand parts unless you did the whole drivetrain.

[quote="carl f"]
Bargain!
Carbon rims?
Tubs or clinchers?

[Andrew G]

[url=http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Quintana-Roo-Lucero-Full-Carbon-Triathlon-TT-%20Bike_W0QQitemZ190208861538QQihZ009QQcategoryZ33503QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem]This[/url] was on the TT forum originally at £1,700 then dropped to £1,500. It's now on ebay and don't know what the reserve would be, but I think they are pretty good bikes (and this one is well spec'd). Might be worth watching to see what it gets to and what the reserve goes at.