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Critic my HIM bike-setup

zwubazwuba
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I thought it would be nice to get your thoughts on my bike setup for my upcoming A-Race IM 70.3 Zell am See.

The new bike course is pretty challenging as they inserted a climb of around 13km with 2200ft of elevation. I rode that hill already and it takes about 38' to get the climb done and you are riding on the bullhorns most of the time so drinking from the BTA-bottle is not an option here -> for this reason I plan to use the Specialized Virtue Aero bottle on the seat tube.

I will start out of T1 with both bottles fully loaded but I will only refill the BTA bottle as after the climb the rest of the course is 99% flat/downhill.





On race-day I'll use my beloved FLO Disc plus a FLO60 front wheel with 25mm Conti 4000SII and latex tubes.

Comments

  • robin sarnerrobin sarner
    looks good.
  • Al TruscottAl Truscott

    No comment on your hydration plans, but … your bike looks cool! Also, 13 km/2200' is a 5-6% grade. You should be able to stay in the aerobars on that? I do routinely, anyway. At your speeds, that would make some difference.

  • zwubazwuba
    The climb starts with around 10% for the first 4k and ends with over 15% on the final 1.7k. This is where I will ride on the bullhorns - the middle section is only 2-3% so ideal for riding in aero image
    I typically try to stay in aero until my speed drops below 24km/h
  • Al TruscottAl Truscott

    Got it - makes perfect sense. I thought it was probably something like that. I usually get up at about 7% or so. A lot of climbs here in the states are much steadier when tackling a long grade, 300+ meters elevation gain. The ones which aren't tend not to be paved.

  • cgres123cgres123
    Hot stuff nice!
  • Wolf GottschalkWolf Gottschalk

    Hi Stefan-

    Can't add anything to critique your setup. However, I use the same Profile Design BTA bottle. Just curious: it looks as if you have it on "backwards", meaning that you have the black nose cone facing towards you as opposed to facing towards the front. Any particular reason why?

  • zwubazwuba
    @Wolf - I tried mounting it the way Profile intended it to mount but then the straw for drinking is that far back that it's almost impossible for me to drink at all. As you may also have noted I don't use the original mounting brakets because the clearance between the extensions of the 3T Brezza bar is too small to get that mounted. This will lower the postion of the bottle significantly and put it far better between your arms but you need to have a longer straw image

    BTW - does anyone know a shop where I can get the Torhans straw-cover??
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