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Old 03-06-11 | 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Val23708
Uh I dont see the point of not going with what your fitter suggests. If the fit they give you isn't proper, then why are you paying them?
Lookit, I personally know of at least a two (not a lot, I know but more than one) cyclists who have been "professionally fit" and their resultant fit is clearly effed up.

Just because some guy at a LBS took a course to be a "XYZ certified fitter" doesn't mean he/she really knows what he/she is doing.

And I know fitting guidelines are not hard and fast and need to be tweaked for individual needs. I am wondering if there is a trend towards saddle height lower than the old 0.883 rule (or lock knee with heel on pedal at downstroke, which yields about the same saddle height) suggests.
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