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Old 10-26-07 | 07:54 AM
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From: Katy Texas

Bikes: Specialized Roubaix

My knee still hurts

I went and got fitted twice by different shops and my knee still has a nagging pain in it. Not a lot, but annoying. I tried putting the saddle up and down forward and back and twisting my shoe clips and it's always there. When I go to get fitted they always set the saddle to high, I ride for a short time and when I get off the bike I can still feel a slight pain just above the right knee cap.
I don't know if this would help, but my inseam is 34.5 from the floor in bare feet and right now the saddle is 30" from the BB and I have my shoe clips at the ball of my foot. When the shop set me up, one had the saddle at 32' and the other shop had it at 31". When I was moving the saddle to different heights, I was moving it a 1/4 of an inch at a time. I talked to a guy yesterday and he said to try it a MM at a time. Isn't that kind of touchy. I really don't think I could be that exact to move it in such small increments.
I called the shop up and told him that my right knee is bothering me, he says raise the saddle. If I raise it anymore I wont be able to touch the pedals. So I started to lower it, knowing I cant raise it anymore and I'm trying to lower it 1/8 of an inch at a time. I find it hard to believe that 1/8 of an inch would make that much of a difference.

I thought maybe I'm not warming up enough, so I spin for about 15 minutes, it seemed to help a little. I can take it easy at 12 or 13 mph, but when I start going 16 or 17mph, I'll feel that same knee pain when I get back home. I've been riding for about 1 1/2 years and been putting up with this for quit some time now. My first year riding I put in 3500 miles. I just rested my knee for 3 days and yesterday I went out for a short 10 miles and there it was again.

Anyhow I read so much about bike fit I don't have clue what is going on. The only thing that keeps coming to mind is a short leg, but I told the fitters about it and they said it wasn't enough to worry about. Thanks for any help as I've been playing with this for some time now and I'd like to get taken care of.
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