I’m trying these… and liking them. Forealz.
Wore my Nomex undies today. Flame away.
Get a front-view video of yourself on a trainer spinning on those to see how your knees are tracking.
My knees are objectively hurting less. The tracking is good!
[quote=match avatar]prob related to the left ball hanging lower
and usually being the bigger one if they are unequal[/quote]
I checked, and you’re right about the geography. How do you do it?!
Also, abandoned period correct '91 Vetta saddle for modern San Marco Zoncolan in TAF colorway. So far so good.
A couple decades back, I unwrapped my fibula. I think that causes my right ankle slight rotation issues. My foot tends to want to stay rotated out (maybe supinated or under pronated) and I get a hot spot on the outside. Should I use a varus or valgus wedge?
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I’m trying these… and liking them. Forealz.[/quote]
I use those too. As people who have met me can attest, I’m a galoot with child bearing hips. Those make my feet actually go under my hips instead of making my legs angle inward.
don’t do this yourself, best case is probably picking at random
see a real doctor
Are there any guidelines about road vs. touring fit? As in, for someone with a relatively relaxed road fit (maybe 1-1/2" handlebar drop), is the usual plan to put my saddle in the exact same relative place and then adjust handlebars from there, or are there any other tweaks I should consider? I want to run the bars higher, close to level, not sure what implications that has.
The Snowaguchi is 72.5 square with 59.5cm tt.
The Vaya is 72 square with a 60cm tt.
don’t do this yourself, best case is probably picking at random
see a real doctor[/quote]
Considering how rare it is to actually need a valgus wedge (which is why I’m constantly baffled that they are included when anyone wants to buy varus wedges), I’m not sure it’d be random at all. If you need your foot angled, you probably need a varus wedge based on statistics.
But what you’re describing is quite the opposite. I actually do use varus wedges because my ankles pronate and turn in when I pedal. I tend to support my foot with my big toe when this happens and my first metatarsal makes very little contact with the shoe. Varus wedges help even that out for me by propping up my first metatarsal and helping alleviate all the weight i was putting on my big toe.
From my understanding, varus wedges will help with pronation and valgus wedges will help with subination. They have a tool they use to determine how correct people need and it requires only measuring the bottom of their foot to see how angled it sits natural, rather than looking at how their ankles and knees track.
In some other shoes I had, I got pretty bad hot spots on the outer edge of my shoe. I found this to be unrelated to needing varus/valgus wedges and just a matter of the shoe not fitting well (too wide).
Speaking of which… my right knee started giving me shit this weekend and was real bad by the time I rode home from work yesterday. Hoping a couple of days on the basket bike will calm it down and i’ll be back to safely riding in my road shoes this weekend. Haven’t really had much for knee problems. Wonder if it’s just my IT band being tight throwing shit off…
So I’ve been doing this routine every morning for the past couple of weeks:
I’ve noticed it has helped my core strength and flexibility on the bike.
It’s all body weight, so it doesn’t require any additional (bourgeois) exercise equipment which I quite appreciate.
I was hoping you’d respond. Thanks. In this case, who is the “they” that has a tool? Or more to the point, I know your shop fits cleats. Know an easy way to find a shop down here that does the same?
I was hoping you’d respond. Thanks. In this case, who is the “they” that has a tool? Or more to the point, I know your shop fits cleats. Know an easy way to find a shop down here that does the same?[/quote]
Specialized makes the tool. Not sure how common it is to find at a bike shop, just know we have one. I have never actually used it on a customer. It is fairly easy to get a good visual on whether the wedges help by utilizing a laser level, but requires a second person.
I’m not sure if there’s an easy way to find a shop that does good cleat fits. If you want to find some place that uses the Fit Kit RAD pedals, there’s a search on their site to narrow it down. Those are really helpful for getting your cleat angled right without too much fucking around.
fucking shit
knees and back annihilated
this happens every time i start to get fast
sigh.
i wish i just had time to derp around 20 hours a week to get great form
pedaling hard if you arent perfectly symmetric is so bad for you
Raise them bars, old man
heh, theyre pretty high man
only 9cm drop
My bro, one must find that sweet spot between pain and power. Harness that and all will be tranquil while you blow apart the field.
Or, just ride bikes with Erik.
get your bars level with your saddle bro
proper race biek
[quote=cookietruck]proper race biek
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Well played.
LULZ