Originally Posted by
terrymorse
Looking at your "hip angle closed", angle from leg at top of pedal stroke to torso:
Typical recommended "hip angle closed" is around 45 degrees. Yours appears to be about 34 degrees. Quite low. You're probably giving up watts to accomplish this small hip angle.
Then there's shoulder angle:
Recommended range is typically 85-90 degrees. Yours looks like about 82 degrees, slightly low.
Thank you, very much.
Hip angle closed, losing watts = as admitted, hands on hoods & slightly higher upper body yields more watts (possibly?!?,
).
It is also true that my more normal position in the drops would not have the forearms level. (
maybe, just maybe I was posing for the camera buddy, I wasn't traveling at 30mph, ha)
Shoulder angle = narrow bars and decades trying for a small frontal on a 6'1" frame.
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Last edited by Wildwood; 03-30-23 at 02:55 PM.