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08-15-12 | 05:18 AM

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donheff

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Originally Posted by nkfrench

I bought a "backup" bike at the same LBS that fit me on my "good" road bike. We swapped out stem, saddle, handlebars and did a lot of work to match the fit. The geometry was very similar between the two bikes to begin with. I left my good bike with the shop so they could compare the two side-by-side doing the setup.
And I still could not ride the new bike more than a few blocks without having severe knee pain.
I had dual campus:SPD pedals on the new bike, MTB SPD pedals on the good bike. So I got the same brand of MTB SPD pedals installed; that solved my knee problems.
It is amazing how locked into a certain fit and bike frame/components you can be after thousands of miles on one bike.
I feel like I could have been in the story "The Princess and The Pea".

I wonder if the pedals would have made same the difference even if the rest of the fit was no so close. Next time start there and see if the rest is really so critical, particularly if you get a bike with a different geometry.

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