Matthew Bottrill, qui roule pour I-Ride, vise l'Or en 2012

2011-12-15

Matt rides for ‘I-Ride’, the UK importer of lots of things to do with cycling including Eddy Merckx and Argon bikes. It’s the latter which Matt rides for time trialling with pretty much the same configuration for all his time trialling. He also does a lot of his training on the TT bike.

Silver in the ‘25’ and ‘50’ in 2011 may well rank him as the second fastest time triallist behind Michael Hutchinson but Matt does feel that with the help of a coach and powercranks, he is training better and getting closer to the rider most want to beat in a time trial; ‘Hutch’.

When VeloUK spoke to Matt, he’d had the end of season break and was getting into the training again and was focused on his assault on the competitions that matter to him in time trialling. In 2011, that included not just the 25 and 50 titles but also the Rudy Project Series which he won after taking the first four rounds.

He’s looking forward to the new E-118 Carbon Frameset from Argon 18 which he hopes will give him a few more watts explaining that the main things he looks for in a TT bike are stiffness and aerodynamics. The bikes have Fulcrum wheels and a Campagnolo groupset along with the very important power cranks. “I’ve been using them for about a year and half now and would be lost without them” he says. “I wish I had started to use them years ago!”

Source : Velo Uk

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