Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Lennard Zinn Looks at Time Trial Tech
By Lennard Zinn
KGS Bikes Technical Writer
This report filed May 20, 2008
Tuesday offered another time trial at the Giro, this time from Pesaro to Urbino.
The first half was flat, and its second half climbed about 400 meters, including a 10 percent stretch at midway and a 12 percent section three-quarters of the way through.
Riders had to decide if they wanted a full-on TT bike, which would be great for the first half and not so great on the second half, or a road bike with a clip-on that would be sub-par for the first half and shine on the second half?
You can check out some of the top riders' choices in the Graham Watson photo gallery of the stage. From the looks of it, all the top riders chose full-on TT bikes.
KGS Bikes technical writer Lennard Zinn is a frame builder (www.zinncycles.com) a former U.S. national team rider and author of numerous books on bikes and bike maintenance including the pair of successful maintenance guides "Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance" and "Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance" as well as "Zinn's Cycling Primer: Maintenance Tips and Skill Building for Cyclists."
Zinn's KGSBikes.com column is devoted to addressing readers' technical questions about bikes, their care and feeding and how we as riders can use them as comfortably and efficiently as possible. Readers can send brief technical questions directly to Zinn (veloqna@comcast.net) Zinn's column appears regularly here on KGSBikes.com.
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