High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: contre la montre – literally "against the watch", in Italian: tappa a cronometro "stopwatch stage"). There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials (TTT). ITT`s are also referred to as "the race of truth", as winning depends only on each rider`s strength and endurance, and not on help provided by team-mates and others riding ahead and creating a slipstream.