Thread: Ow my knee!!!
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Old 07-04-08 | 03:18 PM
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jpmartineau
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From: Montréal, QC (Canada)

Bikes: 2008 Surly LHT complete & 1988-ish fuglyfixed Specialized RockHopper

knee pain from biking comes from 2 reasons:

- seat too low (I guess that's not the case for anyone here)
- gear-inch too long. Basically, our legs are too strong for our knees. We should be pedaling higher rpms. That's definitely the downside of fixed gears.
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