But it can make your bike feel better, increasing comfort and improving control. Join Bicycling All Access for more detailed gear guidesĬhanging your bar won’t fix a frame that doesn’t fit. And you should be able to easily reach the brake levers from the hoods or drops. When your hands are on the hoods or wrapped around the hook portion of the drops, your wrists should be at a comfortable angle.
my floor is leveled and my bike is levelled, and using plumb line, flat board on my saddle to measure the tilt, it still not the same.Assuming your bike is the right size, your bar should let you comfortably reach the brake hoods with a slight bend at the elbow. i even adjusted on indoor trainer and you are damn right. Thus i've been riding around trying to adjust.
since then i though about finding another fitter, like retul system, but so expensive. then within 2 wks of cycling, i pulled a ligement in my left knee putting me off my bike for 3 months. felt the saddle was too far nose down where i was sliding forward and too much pressure in my hands trying to support my body up. but when i started riding outdoors, everything changed. but when i went to him, i was fitted on my bike at his office. even one of our friend who's competes on a global triathlon swears by him.
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i was fitted by a well known local fitter that fitted pros, semi pro and even fitted my favorite comedian/actor Robin Williams (RIP). That's really awesome that you posted this as this totally cleared up my suspicion about bike fit. You can ride a position outside for 5 hours and be comfy, put the exact same bike on the turbo inside and it feels stretched, you’re sitting up every 20 mins to take the strain of your arms and taint.įit yourself outside on the road. 30-90 mins on an indoor bike gives you vastly different fit to real world riding. Get your saddle height correct and play with other positions, reach and height etc. I’d trust these people over a fitter whose been riding for three years and who has qualifications up the wazoo. I bet on this forum there are people who are long time cyclists who have tons of experience, they’ve seen positions and riding styles change over the decades. I’m sure others will have a vastly different opinion to me but it’s just my experience as a fitter, I’ve had plenty of happy customers, the best outcome was on the Guru system where they basically fit themselves and I just kept them from going to far in to the red in any particular area. I don’t believe you can fit to the mm in most areas. When I see fits with hoods at a certain angle and other things set to the mm I’m not sure what to think. Get your saddle height ball park right and you’re good.
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I do see cyclists who are a million miles out and they certainly need some guidance, lots of people with saddles too high but a full bike fit is rarely needed. We can all ride road, CX, TT and MTB with totally different positions.įind one that works for you and go with it. On my courses I was fitted by super experienced fitters, guys who’ve fitted pro riders who all had stellar reputations and I ended up with different fits every time. I know plenty of physios with all the qualifications and I barely trust lots of these with injuries, a bike fitter definitely not.Īfter years of fitting and with the more knowledge I gained I lost more and more faith in bike fits.Ī lot of fitters believe their own bullshit, some courses are a few hours long and you’d think the fitter had a PHD at the finish.
I found people coming up me with injuries and honestly I’m not a physio, a two day bike fit course does not qualify you to fix injuries.
There’s always a theoretical perfect position but it’s often not what people preferred. I spent years as a PT/Gym instructor and had a very basic knowledge of biomechanics that I used when instructing and after all the bike fit courses I was never truly convinced that a fit was a necessity. I was a qualified Retul fitter, Trek fitter and Guru fitter (the best of the three). Have found one resource in the UK that seems to be legit (even more exciting I don't get diverted to a hiking website trying to sell me tents!)?Īs and when I arrive at my conclusions, it would be pretty awesome if one of you guys wold give it the once over and double chack my sanity too! is there a list of suggested resources that you guys might suggest that could get me started? something to do with GDPR regulations (whatever those are). The competitive link referred to in this thread doesn't work in the UK.we automatically get redirected to a hiking website. (Bike fitting: I'd love to do it, but out of my budget) I have what I beleive is a fairly comfortable position on my existing bike, though I would add I'm not 100% convinced it is optimum. I'm in the process of sizing a new frameset.I just need to translate this to the new frameset and select the right size.