How To Practice Cycling For Time Trails

Unlike our continental counterparts, time trials especially like in the Tour de France, you'll see them move over different terrain, sharp corners, up and down hills so it becomes more of a true test, most people believe, for a time trial. So let's see how you will time trial compared to riding a road bike. You'll adopt a much more aerodynamic position which means you'll be low over the bars and you'll be like an egg, really.

So you're trying to beat back the air pressure that's bearing upon you when you're in the time trial position. So if I was to give you a typical demonstration, this would be my position on a mountain bike. On a time trial bike, I'd be down really low like that, trying to get a flat back as much as possible so that the air flow over my body is much quicker and slicker, doesn't stick to my clothing.

You're looking to try and improve your times all the time and the magic barrier which most people want to beat is 25 miles per hour for a one hour time trial. So in other words, if you ride for 25 miles, you're going to do it in 59 minutes and 59 seconds and that equates to just over 25 miles per hour. So time trailing, very popular.

Excellent discipline. Easy to enter. And that, simply, is time trailing. .