Time Trial - Seat position

[biscuit]

If i have put clip on tt bars onto my road bike, will it make i differance if i leave my seat where its is? or should i push it forward?

[TNT1]

Take it off completely.

[biscuit]

anybody?

[Mailot Jaune]

move it forward by 1 cm and also lift it by 1 cm and tilt the point a little down.

[Christie]

Depends - do you do UCI TTs or is it for triathlon?

[biscuit]

it is for provincial champs? and the tt is on sat? is now too late to move the position?

[Christie]

For UCI road TT, tip of saddle has to be no less than 5cm behind center of BB. I would suggest to try get it as clost to 5cm behind the BB as possible.

 

When riding with tri-bars, you tend to put your weight more foreward, so you end up sitting on the tip of the saddle - so give yourself as much of the tip to sit on as possible. Try work in a couple of rides to fiddle with the saddle tilt - I find that tilting the saddle nose down a bit works for me, may not work for you, however.