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Old 02-24-10 | 01:33 PM
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George
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From: Katy Texas

Bikes: Specialized Roubaix

I just wanted to let you know and maybe some others that have some chafing going on.
When I started riding almost 4 years ago I use get knee pain all the time. I tried everything,I though. Everybody I talked to said raise the saddle. So I raised the saddle, but forgot the other side of the coin. Now I'm been fighting this and I thought this is no big thing and I was determined to get it myself. I did have 3 fits and I still had the knee pain.
I started to play around with the Vargas wedges and ended up leaving one in my right shoe. That's the knee that was bothering me all along. So now the pain was gone, but I just couldn't nail the chafing part. I tried heal on pedal. I started stretching more, since I ride in the drops a lot. Anyhow I could go on and on and here's what happened. I know this shop that I'm on pretty good terms with, or would like to think that I am anyhow. I took my bibs in and showed the fitter and he said, hum. So I went back to the mechanic and I showed him and he said, by looking at the skin that was still on the pad, that it's the saddle.
On the way home I started think of different saddles I've tried. Out of the 8 or 10 I tried, I said to myself, it's not the saddle it's me. So anyhow, I started to dig out all my fit books and thought I would take some of the figures they use and apply them to myself. So I dropped the saddle a half an inch. checked my leg bend with a gage and put that at 30 degrees WOW I thought this is going to kill my knees. I went out for a 35 mile ride and no pain or chafing. I thought to myself how could I be so stupid, not hard. I'm going to play with it some more and probably have to move it up a few mm, but for now I feel like I finally done it, and I'm very very happy. I have a Aliante saddle on the Look and it feels great.
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