Joy of riding a Sportive Road Bike

[screenman]

cheers...its quite a way from me but thank you for taking the time.

You are welcome. I do a lot of miles each week so my idea of local is often different from how others see them

 

[NorvernRob]

Get it done professionally you're no better off. The only reason I had mine done was because the buyer had paid and had to use it by a certain date, then promptly went and broke his pelvis.

The problem with professional "systems" is the contradictory stance they take in many key areas. Which is correct? Are any correct?

Comfort is the paramount factor in every adjustment and measurement. It doesn't matter how mechanically efficient your position is with regards to your leg stroke if you can't fill your lungs or look forward without your neck going click.

Even the most deliberately obtuse among us know when we're uncomfortable and are capable of identifying which bit of our body is uncomfortable, and it.doesn't take a bike fit.specialist to tell us that something.needs a.twiddle to correct it.

Look at the various systems as tools. The key to a proper fit lies with whoever is using those tools.

Give me some power tools, show me how to use them (or I'll learn from youtube videos) and I'll knock something together. But give an experienced professional those tools, and they will produce something better than I can.

My friend went for a retul fit, he was put in the position the system came up with and his left leg was totally extended due to leg length discrepancies. The fitter ended up abandoning the fit (no charge to my friend) because he didn't know what to do beyond what the system said. I'm not suggesting the system is poor, but a good fit obviously requires more than a simple by-the-numbers adjustment.

That's why I've got a fit booked with Adrian Timmis in a couple of weeks - I don't even know what system he uses but he has so many satisfied customers I'm happy I've made the right choice. I chose the fitter not the system.

I spend so much on cycling that another £200 for a potential improvement has to be money well spent. Otherwise I'd always be wondering 'what if I could be better with a professional fit'.

Btw comparing bike fitting with homeopathy is downright wrong, homeopathy IS snake oil and cannot possibly work because all it is is massively diluted solutions. Bike fits can and do work for everyone, whether you do it yourself or pay someone else.

 

[cyberknight]

Interesting thoughts on saddle height 'I have always found jimlangleys bike fit to be easy and right .

 

[raleighnut]

Look at the various systems as tools. The key to a proper fit lies with whoever is using those tools.

Give me some power tools, show me how to use them (or I'll learn from youtube videos) and I'll knock something together. But give an experienced professional those tools, and they will produce something better than I can.

My friend went for a retul fit, he was put in the position the system came up with and his left leg was totally extended due to leg length discrepancies. The fitter ended up abandoning the fit (no charge to my friend) because he didn't know what to do beyond what the system said. I'm not suggesting the system is poor, but a good fit obviously requires more than a simple by-the-numbers adjustment.

That's why I've got a fit booked with Adrian Timmis in a couple of weeks - I don't even know what system he uses but he has so many satisfied customers I'm happy I've made the right choice. I chose the fitter not the system.

I spend so much on cycling that another £200 for a potential improvement has to be money well spent. Otherwise I'd always be wondering 'what if I could be better with a professional fit'.

Btw comparing bike fitting with homeopathy is downright wrong, homeopathy IS snake oil and cannot possibly work because all it is is massively diluted solutions. Bike fits can and do work for everyone, whether you do it yourself or pay someone else.

I've come across a guy (we sat and nattered for a while at a pub in Derbyshire, both out touring) who had different length crankarms to get around the problem of one leg shorter than the other. He'd broken his leg as a young lad and it hadn't set right so he used a 172.5 on one side and a 165 on the other (I only noticed cos they were different brands and I just thought he'd damaged one and fitted another arm as a spare/bodge til he told me)

 

[cyberknight]

I've come across a guy (we sat and nattered for a while at a pub in Derbyshire, both out touring) who had different length crankarms to get around the problem of one leg shorter than the other. He'd broken his leg as a young lad and it hadn't set right so he used a 172.5 on one side and a 165 on the other (I only noticed cos they were different brands and I just thought he'd damaged one and fitted another arm as a spare/bodge til he told me)

Would foot beds only in one shoe work the same for smaller discrepancies?

 

[oldroadman]

Look at the various systems as tools. The key to a proper fit lies with whoever is using those tools.

Give me some power tools, show me how to use them (or I'll learn from youtube videos) and I'll knock something together. But give an experienced professional those tools, and they will produce something better than I can.

My friend went for a retul fit, he was put in the position the system came up with and his left leg was totally extended due to leg length discrepancies. The fitter ended up abandoning the fit (no charge to my friend) because he didn't know what to do beyond what the system said. I'm not suggesting the system is poor, but a good fit obviously requires more than a simple by-the-numbers adjustment.

That's why I've got a fit booked with Adrian Timmis in a couple of weeks - I don't even know what system he uses but he has so many satisfied customers I'm happy I've made the right choice. I chose the fitter not the system.

I spend so much on cycling that another £200 for a potential improvement has to be money well spent. Otherwise I'd always be wondering 'what if I could be better with a professional fit'.

Btw comparing bike fitting with homeopathy is downright wrong, homeopathy IS snake oil and cannot possibly work because all it is is massively diluted solutions. Bike fits can and do work for everyone, whether you do it yourself or pay someone else.

The difference in the bike fit - someone who actually knows what he is doing. As an ex-pro of high repute the fit will done properly, and what a system can't always do is the tiny tweaks that someone who has knowledge can add. It does seem that some "bike fitters" are just that, do the training to operate the machine and anything outside parameters is a problem too great for the experience. As ever, it's not the tools, but the way they are used that counts.

 

[screenman]

3 of us from this family have been to Adrian all happy with the outcome.

 

[Levo-Lon]

3 of us from this family have been to Adrian all happy with the outcome.

was this in the political section?

 

[screenman]

was this in the political section?

Sorry?