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Old 12-01-15 | 08:33 PM
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carpediemracing
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From: Tariffville, CT

Bikes: Tsunami road bikes, Dolan DF4 track

Sort of an open ended statement.

I just did a fit. Curiously I wanted to be significantly lower with the bars, and about the same amount closer (so more bent over, more or less).

(Note: I maxed out the reach and I was just getting into increasing reach when the gizmo displayed an error reading, no more movement possible.)

I'm going to start changing my bike one thing at a time to see what happens. Realistically I'm not going to drop the bars the 2 or 3 cm, nor am I going to reduce reach, but I did isolate the sensations that made different positions uncomfortable and now I know to look for them.

I'm also going to test saddles. Didn't have time during the session, which started late in the evening and lasted until almost 1 AM. I'm curious about the twin nose saddles, being shorter in length etc (my saddle nose is well ahead of the BB). I learned a bunch of other things. I bought into the orthotics immediately - it eliminated a significant knee wiggle right away and I felt fine in the 3 or 4 hours I was on the fit bike. I have maybe 2 or 3 more changes to make relating to fit. I want to double check with my spare bars (shallower drop than bars he had), do the saddle testing, and that should set my bike for 2016.

I'll "test" on Zwift, where it's pretty consistent and I'm pretty familiar with what I can and can't do.
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