Tuesday, December 14, 2010




A couple of years ago I saw a picture of a British homebuilt lowracer with a laidback seat and a high bottom bracket and thought that if I ever built another race bike I would build it like that. I forgot about that idea and later built a lowracer with a relatively low BB. Lately I've been riding with an extra high BB and seat angle on my trike. While my legs, the knee area specifically, really liked this I found the position to be systemically stressful and tired of it. I laid back the seat to see how it feels with the high BB (14" over seat height) and initially, surprisingly, it feels very good and natural. I'll train with it and see how it goes. Hopefully I'll be able to activate my posterior chain more while not paying much of, if any, an aerodynamic penalty.

My goal, as of now, will be to beat BritCPower's trike record at the Putah Creek TT.

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