It was announced yesterday that effective this season, TT bikes are illegal in US collegiate races.
It brings a smile to my face knowing that I don't have to assemble the p.o.s. Leader TT frame and ride it around this winter... not that I would have anyways.
No clip-on aero bars allowed either. I hate installing those things on road bikes anyways, especially when it is 20deg C. I've lost about a dozen bolts because my fingers have been to numb to pick them off the ground in February.
TT helmets will be legal, since most are mass start legal. This is a good thing.... otherwise some dumb kids would start covering their road bike helmet vents with duct tape. I've seen it happen.
__________________________________________________________________
I can't wait to just jump on my normal comfortable bike and pedal hard.
The time complaining about how I haven't been on a TT bike in weeks to other racers this collegiate season is going to be a huge savings.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
8 comments:
Saw the emails as well. Great especially for the low category riders that don't have 4 bikes and 3 wheelsets to win a Collegiate D race against a tri-geek with rich parents.
Not that I'm bitter...
Surprisingly, there weren't that many racers in the ACCC that had fancy TT bikes. Once in a while, a tri-dork would do the TT at their school's race weekend and crush everyone.
Oh, and JFlo always had a real sick TT bike... but he was in major credit card debt because of it.
Oh, and the kids from Navy. Lots of disc wheels.
Bro, 20 degrees C is quite comfortable... work on your metric conversions.
Ig, how did you know I didn't mean 20deg C. I have poor circulation to my hands and feet.
Glad to see USAC is preparing collegiate riders for the world outside of playtime-groupride-holdhands-funworld known as collegiate cycling.
oh, you miss it.
go to grad school
never realized there was collegiate cycling. ahh..just looked, there's collegiate bowling too. Is there scholarships for this stuff?
collegiate cycling is usually a "club" sport, but there are some teams that are fully supported monetarily by their school. We have to do a lot of fund raising at VT. And we have some great donors too.
I wish I wasn't burnt out on bowling, I would love to be a collegiate bowling star.
Post a Comment