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Would say the same - the rider contributes 80% of drag. But before you buy the TT bike, have you removed the headset spacers? If it's still too high then you could try an adjustable stem. A TT bike will probably be heavier than your road bike. Do you have a skinsuit and aero helmet? Both are useful, inexpensive gains.

Wheels are a good place for aero improvements and can be swapped across to any bike. But Zipp wheels are poor value - unless you're in the top few places you're paying a lot for the name. PX carbon or other ~50mm would be worth considering; a lightweight aero 35mm rim e.g. American Classic Aero 420 is worthwhile and an excellent compromise.

Have you considered your training for time trials and other distances? Do you train on the aerobars to replicate your race position? I could be completely wrong but for many people investing in a coach or tailored training plan would do more to bring your times down than expensive hardware.

He can afford to have an off day now...that will make it all authentic again.

Like others on here yes I can remember being that age (please note I say age, 21 is not young) I had been driving cars and motorbikes for three and a half years and had yet to knock somebody off their pushbike still haven't. Mistakes are drinking too much and falling over etc, not hitting someone then bragging about it.

As for learning from this I seriously doubt that she has.

"I wouldn't bother upgrading your Giant wheels unless you are going to go beyond the Aksiums as I don't think you will get enough out of it to warrant a change."

My mate also has the excellent Defy3 and the wheels are pretty good on it. Getting Aksiums is not enough of an advance over the original wheelset to justify you spending the money.

Save your £££ for the moment until you can buy a wheelset like the Ksyrium or equivalent.
THEN you WILL notice the improvement.

Work done by firms like Deloitte goes well beyond just auditing accounts - for instance, PwC provide the independent adjudicator for the National Lottery draws.

Since Deloitte is an independent auditing firm, that provides a guarantee of sorts that collation and presentation of results is above board; something I imagine would have been called into question had the UCI conducted the survey and presented the findings itself.

Also, in this case, given the nature of the surveys I imagine there would indeed have been a lot of number crunching involved.

Wise words, alotronic. Bar bags are great. Mind you, I can't help wonering if I could get this down to 400g if I cut off the handle and straps. 200g less bag allows 200g more patisserie on tour!

Deloitte are also a business consultancy - I suspect it's that arm that did this. Most important recommendation missed : remove mcQuaid.

I wondering if he would have been pulled over had he been wearing a helmet.

A good position blows all other potential gains out of the water. So if you can get a better position on a tt bike then it is a good way to go. The steeper position should help on the run too- so i am told- but I believe a good ride should never be ruined by preceding it with a swim or following it with a run.

Personally I would look at Boardman AirTT or a 2nd hand Cervelo P3.

I saw the interview and *figuratively* thought she has a face with an attitude that makes you want to punch it and keep on punching... She was trophy hunting, on a damage limitation exercise and being an ice cold biatch. She has no sincerity and doesn't give a flying fook about the cyclist that could have been maimed or killed by her car and her driving. As others have said she is gutted she made the tweet and thats it. Its not just that though, she moans about other drivers when she has just what 3 or 4 years driving experience tops yet she photographs other cars on her smartphone and tweets about them... while she is driving, and then another one at 95mph.... She needs 3 year ban and big fine for what she has done. Then hopefully she'll lose her job and then she might just realise that she can't go around being the type of horrible, ignorant and arrogant person she is. Seriously, a firm line needs taking when vulnerable road users become victims and it has to send out the right message. If it was me I'd send her to prison for 14 days for what she has done, even if she hadn't tweeted it.

My purist team has been hit badly with 3 riders pulled out so I'd expect to finish outside top 3 tbh ,
On the plus side, my decision to gamble and stick with Sanchez and Di Luca have bumped me back to 3rd in the Giro comp and given me hope of consolidating

Most police stations offer the service.
Sometimes local police will tweet or otherwise publicise some event or other that they're going to (local fairs are a common one) where they'll do bike marking. A local cafe round here has regular "police days" where anyone bringing a bike in can get it security marked.

As above, great to see the police being pro-active in the issue of bike theft, well done that officer.