Alabama Viking wrote:
We may get the first rain from hurricane Nate Saturday morning during a sprint race. How much worse is my preferred TT over the 4000SII when wet?
I have tubs on my TT bike now, but raced Cont TTs for the last seasons and my roadie has 4000SIIs. I found the TTs to have a little less grip and almost came off a few times, once when I gently accelerated out of a roundabout in wet, windy conditions. I was surprised that it gave way like it did when I was only doing 10km/hr. That said shitloads of people went down at that roundabout and it is notorious , so I'm guessing grippier tyres would have also struggled. I really rate the GP TT though, really fast and never had a flat in 2 seasons. Also got way more mileage out of them than is typically suggested. If I was doing a sprint with a lot of corners in the wet, I'd definitely think about something else, but a 70.3/IM with a couple of turn around points would be no issue.