Bike Fitting
Thinking that just professionals need bike fitting is completely wrong! All cyclist need to be checked by specialist and adjust bike to their fitness situation/status, it doesn’t matter if this is a hobby rider or ever day training person. Important of found balance of comfortable/performance/healthy is always important and priority.
We see many cyclist how they seat on too small bike or too big bike, and this can bring pain in knees and some injures on different parts of body.Saddle is one of the important contact on the bike. Like we all know we have 3 contact points on the bike with rider, this is 1. Saddle 2. Handlebar (grips/tape) 3. Shoes (cleats).
We should not underestimate all this points, by saddles we have so many on market that is hard to choose but to be correct seating and use seats bones to be on saddle and without blocking nerves on the our lower part of the body is really important.By shoes and cleats we have so much to discuss that we could be write a book, but simple is to make sure that shoes and inserts are as much is possible comfortable and stabilize, to transfer power to the pedals and to wheels but also that is not uncomfortable. There we need to choose carefully our shoes and inserts, special we need to check our feet that insert give all support which we need.
From the shoes we come to pedals and cleats and there is really simple, cleats and pedal position need to be in the same way like we walk and without pushing knee out or in and whit this we avoid all important injures.And last but not least is handlebar and position, where we need to look position and how wide is handlebar, or on MTB or Road bike. Adjusting saddle position and handlebar position with important angle of arms and body position is crush by cyclist.In overall we recommend to do BikeFitting every year or at least every two years because of changing level of fitness of riders and also because of changing structure of body of every rider. Special by new bikes is Really important to get bike to fit to your body and ride style. The most we see that MTB rider underestimate fitting on bike but later suffer on the some pain in knee or somewhere else.
Visit a bikefittig studio is not just for profesionals, but also for all daily riders which wanna just be sure that they can ride and smile.