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06-30-19 | 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Road Fan

I want to find a template to use to record the different steps in my evolving bike self-fitting. There used to be one in an earlier edition of Zinn's book on road bike maintenance, but in the current one I have, it has vanished. Anybody know of something floating in the Web ether? Too lazy to write my own, this time.

Try to use da Webz constructively: Google "bicycle fitting template"

Here's one: https://www.parktool.com/assets/img/...sitionroad.pdf

And another: Documenting Your Bike & Equipment « Bicycle « PBM Coaching

yet another, and in my town!: www.med.umich.edu/medsport/services/bikefitting.html

https://bikefitadviser.com/

Reviving a zombie thread here, b/c I was looking for something similar.

A question or two, if anybody knows more about this.
The pbmcoaching diagram makes sense to me, but I don't quite get the measurement of the saddle height (length "A") on the parktool diagram. It's measuring from the bottom bracket to some vague point behind the saddle? That must not be right. What exactly is the reference point, then?
The other links (umich, bikefitadvisor) don't lead to diagrams that I can find. Can anybody point to any other suggested standard measurement templates?

Background: I'm trying to match the fit on two road bikes, but they have different seat tube angles, so I need a standard reference point on the saddle to aim for. I've seen people suggest something like 60% of the length from the nose to the back of the saddle. I like the pbmcoaching suggestion of measuring to the 80 mm width.

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