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OK, I'm hoping for bike geekdom par excellence, training wisdom that would flatter Mr Mayagi of Karate Kid fame and even old (TT) wives' tales (however unscientific or unproven) that have made you ride faster, if you don't object to sharing with a (highly ambitious and competitive) novice!

I've just joined your great club, been made to feel really welcome and, after a month of (relatively) specific TT training, moved from being an occasional Sportive rider to a 24 minute 10m tester with a once only time of 1h05 for 25m.

I have a semi-converted, non-aero road bike with tri bars, cosmic elite alloy clinchers with conti supersonic tyres, a zero setback seat post and my saddle right forward and some now, frankly, weird looking road bars I took a hacksaw to!

I have 5 to 6 days a week to race and train (subject to family approval), a HR monitor and a Garmin and am currently managing 1 x race per week, 2 x interval sessions per week and 2 x long steady and/or recovery rides per week.

Over the course of a club 10, my AHR is 92% of MHR.

Just looking at the jet-propelled folk that blast down the A4 course, a number of things strike me:

1-You don't get leg muscles like that sat on the sofa
2-Wow those are deep section and/or noisy disc wheels
3-That's a skin suit and aero helmet you're wearing and I'm not
4-Your shifters are on the end of your tri bars and mine aren't
5-Although I can't see my own cadence, you seem to pedalling a lot faster than me
6-Perhaps if I am able to take all the above in during a race, I'm not trying hard enough!

So, finally, here's the question:

What does make the biggest speed gain per £ in the world of Time Trialling and what would you recommend for a rider like me?

Any advice greatfully recieved.

Jon