Hi,
I have a question for any Craft tri top users. I have been using Desoto trisuits for years, and love them, but a sponsors gear is craft. I wore it for the first time in a race and noticed that until it dried, it seemed to billow up with air when in the aero position. Now, this is not to say that it was flapping, but rather it just filled up with air, and I could feel that it was not against my skin. I suppose that I will probably get some wise cracker answers that I need to fill up the top with some more muscle, but Im really looking to see if anyone has a similar experience with Craft, other tri-tops, when they are wet (about the first 4 miles or so of the bike). Anyone have this happen and know how to mitigate it?
i had this happen with my zoot top and desoto one for a while, the new one from voler has no such issues. i think it has to do with the fit though, because the zoot one is top of the line, the desoto i have is a training top, and they both do it. the zoot only lasts about 5 min though before it dries enough to stop.
i had this happen with my zoot top and desoto one for a while, the new one from voler has no such issues. i think it has to do with the fit though, because the zoot one is top of the line, the desoto i have is a training top, and they both do it. the zoot only lasts about 5 min though before it dries enough to stop.
I guess if I want something to fit right, I have to get it tailored. I thought that the size small was going to be too small (Im not a tiny guy), and it did feel a little tight,
but it still did the billowing out thing. I was very surprised by this, but thinking about it, I have always used a one-piece trisuit to race in which would streatch out the top a bit so that it would not do this. Is there anything that you did to lessen this from happening? Thanks for the info!
how narrow do are your bars? my top fit right, but when my arms were down and close together it opened up some space to catch the wind. the top i have now comes up further and doesnt catch it unless its unzipped.
how narrow do are your bars? my top fit right, but when my arms were down and close together it opened up some space to catch the wind. the top i have now comes up further and doesnt catch it unless its unzipped.
I had to switch from a large top to a medium because of this. All of the Craft custom clothing we ordered (the men’s and women’s tri-suits) seemed to fit a lot bigger than did the fit-kit they sent us beforehand. As a result, most of us ended up with tri suits that were borderline too big. In fact, not a single girl fit in the bottoms we ordered for them, and they did try on the fit-kits. Verge did their best to accommodate us, “allowing” us to purchase additional, smaller shorts for the girls at half-price. Overall, it was disappointing, fit-wise; but now that I have a more appropriately-sized top for myself, I really do love the stuff.
Somehow my last post did not have any of the posting which I wrote. Anyway, to make a long story short, I did not think about narrow elbows causing the neck to catch the air (mine are somewhat narrow). What I was thinking though was whether having the singlet catching wind actually increases drag.
In pondering, I think that an arguement can be made that it may actually reduce drag (I really mean it, no joking). Here is my reasoning… Since the jersey is just filled up with air, and NOT flapping around, it acts like a solid body once inflated, deflecting wind around it. Now, negelecting the increase in frontal area (which I dont think would be that much), it may act to SMOOTH OUT the surface and create a better flow with less turbulance.
Now, taking this one step further, since this is a theoretical discussion thus far; if you then design clothes to take advantage of high pressure areas to serve as a source for air which is channeled to ‘pockets’ in a garment that normall have a low pressure vortex in order to ‘fill it in’; you could create a garment that would be more aerodynamic, yet still stay within the rules (technically if not the spirit of the rule).
That would be a Profile Fuel Cell which is the legal version of the illegal profile bullet bar. I actually have a second one that I just found recently on Ebay. Most people threw these things out after they fell off their bike due to the problems with the mechanism to hold it on (or lack thereof).
I painted it with the new plastic specific spray paint, and when I use a straw with it, I modified it so that it is a hinged one (like the nozzle on a camel back) so that it flips down and out of the wind.
I noticed that it felt like my cervelo tri jersey was catching wind while it was wet the other day. It really does not make sense to me that it would somehow fit looser and catch more wind when it is wet and you would think heavier and more clingy.
WHat I believe is happening is that the water is filling up the pores in the fabric (overloading the ‘wiking channels’) and making it into effectively a solid body (like a plastic sheet) until it dries and opens up the holes in the fabric once more.
,