Originally Posted by
bragi
Looking at your picture again, it seems to me that your bicycle's frame looks a bit small for you. I could be wrong about this, though. You probably already know this, but when your cranks are parallel to the ground, and you look at your forward shin bone, is it perpendicular to the ground? That is, is your knee above your pedal? I know this seems pedantic, but, again, even a seemingly minor maladjustment can have big consequences for your comfort and injury prevention.
I assume you're talking about kops, right? I'm not actually sure since I think my interpretation of this idea was wrong. It's pretty likely that my knee is tracking slightly behind the pedal spindle when the pedal is horizontal to the ground.
Just out of curiosity, why would you say the frame looks small? Seat tube length seems right but do you think the toptube is too short? It is a CX frame, which will make it a bit more upright from my understanding than your typical road bike.
Originally Posted by
Dunbar
You can also try flipping the stem up to get more upright. My first road bike I had lower back soreness which was caused by too much reach. I ended up putting a shorter stem and shorter reach bars to significantly shorten the reach from stock. Could just be the picture but you look fairly upright already. If your back isn't killing you though I would ride it for a week and see if it gets any better. I went through all sorts of aches and pains when I got a road bike that went away with time.
I'm not sure if flipping the stem would help in my case since it's already sloping up. I think I look more upright in the picture than when I'm actually riding because I'm trying to keep myself from falling over at the same time
