Cervelo SLC SL, setting up for TTs.....help!

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New to the Board and am seeking advice on setting up my Cervelo for TTs.
I have a 48 Cervelo SLC SL. (sorta blew the budget on this bike and can’t afford a dedicated TT bike now).
The SLC SL is set up with Zipp SLC2 road bars. I have the Zipp Vuka clipons on order. I have a spare seatpost that I will mount a Selle Italia SLR T1 on.
As far as wheels go…I have a set of Reynolds DV46UL Tubulars. I attached a picture of the bike with my other wheels on it. The only thing I have changed
since the picture was take was the water bottle cage on the downtube. I added a Arundel aero bottle/cage. Its very difficult to fit 2 normal water bottles on a size
48 frame. A little info about me I suppose may help. I’m 5 foot 5, 68.5kg (hoping to get to 66 someday). I train with a powermeter and I have access to tacx trainers with powermeters.
My last “indoor” TT was 15 minutes and my average wattage was 291.
Any advice/criticism welcome.

Cheers,
Kyle.

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Nice bike…

I didn’t see any questions about troubleshooting a setup, thus title should just be porn.

Get fitted and see if the forward position works for you.

Either clip on aerobars or use quick release cables and to switch out for an aero bar-end setup.

Dual bottles, try the satellite Bontrager cage that side mounts for a seat post cage with a smaller bottle.

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I’m getting fitted this week.
Cheers,
K.

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I have been on soloist slc for a year now and would highly recommend investing in the switchable seatpost. The rest you’ll figure out by feel.

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are you still using that fork?

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I actually have another seatpost with a reversable “head”. I will mount my TT saddle to that so I can simply sway the entire saddle/post out quickly.

Nice eye!!! NO that fork has been replaced under the recall. Thank you for noticing it.

K.

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good to know you replaced the fork. :wink:

regarding the clip-ons, just make sure your carbon drop bars are design to accept cip-on aerobars. Ask Zipp if you’re not sure. Not all carbon drop bars are designed for clip-on clamping stresses.

It looks from the pic like you have a good 6-7cm of drop already. With a forward seatpost, and maintaining saddle-BB distance, you should be able to squeeze out another 2cm of drop or so, making handlebar drop 8-9cm. So you should have a fairly decent handlebar drop for TTing purposes.

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The bars on the SLC SL now are Zipp SLC2. I purchased the bars specfically to bolt the Zipp Vuka ClipOns. So I should be all set there.
Actually the drop right now is a little too severe for stricly road riding. I had to add a small spacer and move the bars up just a touch.
I’m not sure if I will take the spacer out and drop the bars down for TTs. I will find that all out this week, after my fitting.
I’ll be sure to post pictures!

K.