The 41 refugee thread
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The 41 refugee thread
Ask your non-racing road cycling questions here. Keep it civil please. Anyone who asks about shaving, what to wear under their shorts, or any other similarly innane topics will be drawn and quartered.
08-04-10, 08:44 AM
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Why has the 41 gotten so dumb lately?
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People here don't get it.
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Why do I see a lot of racer guys wearing full fingered gloves in the summer?
08-04-10, 08:51 AM
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much as i dislike giving any credibility to 33 sneering, but the 41 has lurched south in last couple of days. help.
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Ok the idea is not to emulate the 41...
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08-04-10, 08:55 AM
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i have a question.
what is the angle of your foot at the bottom of your pedal stroke. i rode with my rode nazi friends a few weeks ago and they got me to lower my seat so i could get a bit of ankle down action and it really helped. i had felt my seat was a teeny bit high but not enough to cause hip rocking. the lowering was tiny, but the ankle down really added a noticeable amount of power on the climb. it works for me but i wonder if this is what most people do.
what is the angle of your foot at the bottom of your pedal stroke. i rode with my rode nazi friends a few weeks ago and they got me to lower my seat so i could get a bit of ankle down action and it really helped. i had felt my seat was a teeny bit high but not enough to cause hip rocking. the lowering was tiny, but the ankle down really added a noticeable amount of power on the climb. it works for me but i wonder if this is what most people do.
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I tend to be nearly flat footed when trying to spin circles on climbs or FTP efforts on the flat. When I don't concentrate I tend to have my toes pointing down a bit.
When you say ankle down you mean closer to the horizontal plane of the spindle but not below that plane, correct?
When you say ankle down you mean closer to the horizontal plane of the spindle but not below that plane, correct?
08-04-10, 09:02 AM
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I tend to be nearly flat footed when trying to spin circles on climbs or FTP efforts on the flat. When I don't concentrate I tend to have my toes pointing down a bit.
When you say ankle down you mean closer to the horizontal plane of the spindle but not below that plane, correct?
When you say ankle down you mean closer to the horizontal plane of the spindle but not below that plane, correct?
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i have a question.
what is the angle of your foot at the bottom of your pedal stroke. i rode with my rode nazi friends a few weeks ago and they got me to lower my seat so i could get a bit of ankle down action and it really helped. i had felt my seat was a teeny bit high but not enough to cause hip rocking. the lowering was tiny, but the ankle down really added a noticeable amount of power on the climb. it works for me but i wonder if this is what most people do.
what is the angle of your foot at the bottom of your pedal stroke. i rode with my rode nazi friends a few weeks ago and they got me to lower my seat so i could get a bit of ankle down action and it really helped. i had felt my seat was a teeny bit high but not enough to cause hip rocking. the lowering was tiny, but the ankle down really added a noticeable amount of power on the climb. it works for me but i wonder if this is what most people do.
08-04-10, 09:05 AM
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Varies from person to person. I pedal toe down, as did some notable pros like Iban Mayo. Heel down bothers my knee. If something works for you then it works for you.
(EDR beat me to it...)
(EDR beat me to it...)
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I tend to be slightly toes down unless I concentrate on it a bit. I tried forcing myself to go heel down for a while some time ago, but long-term it didn't work well for me. I noticed some slight immediate power gains but ultimately decided it was because I was pushing harder while concentrating on it. I started to have some achilles soreness earlier in the season and noticed if I dropped my heal a little more it went away, so I lowered my saddle a few mm and that helped, but that makes me closer to horizontal, nowhere near heel down.
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08-04-10, 09:07 AM
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Do you work? Does your work involve a keyboard? Ever try typing with road rash on your fingers?
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