i checked setback, dead on with the KOPS method and it feels pretty good w/ weight distro.
i raised the seat a little tiny bit to see what would happen and got crazy taint pain and was bouncing all over the place at high rpm. now i remember why i lowered it to begin with.
i think my knee is tracking a bit towards the bike at the top of the pedal stroke but nothing terribly noticeable.
lemme read some internets on that meniscus tho.
Could be a cleat positioning thing. You use the same shoes this whole time?
Sorry I forgot to make it back to answer questions.
I do squat and deadlift, on a weekly basis through the winter, and now kind of transitioning out into pretty much just racing and bike workouts.
I have done a lot to try and improve my back and core strength (I go to the gym 2x a week 9 months out of the year for core and strength trianing), but lower back and upper back (between my shoulders) problems have plagued me for the last 3 years pretty much.
I definitely have some imbalance issues. My pelvis is not symmetrical and I always feel a little off in the hips, but this particular back pain is definitely symetrical, hurts evenly on both sides. I have fairly regular pain in my upper back concentrated on one side that is 100% related to my hip imbalance, which causes me to stand and sit crooked most of the time.
I do not have a trainer. My rollers are at the gym, not at home, as well. So I don’t have any videos to provide to see me on the bike.
Pelvic rotation is definitely an issue. The position I would like to have my pelvis in is not sustainable due to it shifting my weight off my sit bones and onto my pubic bone (maybe pubic rami but i don’t know the bones well enough to state this for certain), which puts way too much pressure on the labia.
Also I haven’t tried a selle SMP, but I briefly sad on an adamo and holy fuck, whole different kind of pain. Put all of the weight on the bones and not my labia, but smashed some totally different shit and did not feel good at all.
My 3 saddles i use are
Specialized Lithia - Softest, use it on my track bike, which has the most drop,the padded nose lets me rotate a bit forward more easily
Specialized Jett - Pretty good, still not great for rotating my pelvis
Specialized Aura - least favorite, a little too hard on my nethers
None are great, but haven’t found anything better…
this could be it and it was my first thought. i started getting the pain faster (after fewer miles) on the yeti, which uses a different pedal/shoe setup than i’ve been riding (time atacs).
but then i started having the problem on the GT, which is using the same pedal/shoe setup i’ve been using for a year (shimano spd sl). i put new cleats on but i copied the old position. i can make it 1.5-2x as far on this bike before noticing pain.
i’d just leave it and ease back on the mileage and get back into it slowly. if you’re having problems i’d just follow the 10% rule, or adding 10% more mileage a week.
i just want to put this out there: when aeroamy gave me a bike fit she adjusted my cleat position and that was probably the most valuable service i should have paid for sooner.
my lower back was giving me hell. it started in CX season when I got my colnago and was running a 56cm frame with a 120mm stem. Longer reach than I was used to and on top of that flying through bouncy shitty hard rutted socal CX courses.
I went for an eval and was basically told “hey your front chain is really strong but your posterior chain is not relative to the front”
come to find out I had a weird pelvic tilt postural issue. Runs in the fam (sister is a dancer and has to deal with it)
Lifting didn’t help. Lifting in conjunction with a flexibility program did. When I was reaching at what should have been a good reach for my body size, my legs were tight and fighting back and the relatively loose muscles in my lower back were getting pulled.
I know this sounds like a shit explanation, but I’m in the middle of running a lab protocol that has gone on for a couple weeks. I would recommend working on flexibility a lot, and foam rolling as much as possible. I’ve experienced the lower back pain that has kept me off the bike. My trainer told me to foam roll BEFORE i went out and rode. That seemed to help a lot tbh.
also picked out a few yoga poses and started doing those in conjunction.
went to the sports doc today (health insurance, why not) to check out the knee and she said i have patellar tendonitis and IT band syndrome. she said to take some anti-inflammatory drugs, ice, and stretch while pulling back on the mileage… wrote me a referral for a bike fit, and also PT if the drugs/ice/stretching don’t help. she did all sorts of tests trying to find acute pain but none of the manipulations she did to my leg triggered anything excessively painful. it’s still just that annoying feeling of something.
The tendonitis sounds legit based off your story. My achilles tendonitis would strike up when I would jump too quickly into mileage when the weather got nice here in central PA. So I had to harden up and ride more outside in cold, or just take it slow as it warmed. (a last year, and b this year coz dissertation).
Maybe I should post this to the DQ thread. Need to setup a bike with a different geo. I presume for locating the handlebars, I simply pull the stack and reach off the old bike and translate that to the new and I’ll expect a reasonably similar fit?
Set saddle height and setback, then front axle to stem faceplate and faceplate to saddle nose
Measure the second two to the hoods if its a different bar
Shits easy
pretty much. measure saddle to bar drop, nose of saddle to bar, saddle height, and saddle setback. duplicate
i think that’s it.
That’s how I’ve done it in the past.
Different saddles in this case. Gonna probably be fucking with saddle height and setback after I get it together. This is the reason I want to get the cockpit in the right place.
keep the saddle and bottom bracket within the same relation to one another.
move the front end up (mountain?)
Like I said, saddle is different. This is road.
ride it
comparing sweet spots on saddles without trying htem is impossible
I think that’s Heath’s plan.
Assuming he finds the right saddle position, it should also work out with matched stack and reach.
That’s what I’m asking about.
FWIW, saddle isn’t totally new to me. Came off my old road bike antares on a 25mm setback post. Present saddle is an arione on a 15mm post. IIRC there was a 3cm difference in saddle nose to bar between them.
I never wrote that shit down, though.
I can figure this out by trial and error no problem, just shooting to eliminate some of the iterations. Need another cm of setback and saddle height on my existing fit anyway.
sounds like you got some merckxin’ to do