dvon1981

So after lots of reading on here I'm blown away about how the smallest changes can make such HUGE difference in ride comfort. Last weekend I raised my seat about 1cm and found I was getting a lot more power to the pavement. I also added clipless pedals last weekend (not the same day as raising the seat). I've put about 100 miles since adding the pedals and found on longer rides the outside of my left foot was starting to hurt. It would start hurting around 15 miles in and then around 25 miles it was def hurting. My right foot wasn't though. This weekend before I went out I looked at my shoes carefully, i notiched the right cleat was forward maybe 2mm of where they left was. I moved the left cleat up, went for a 20 miles ride and bam, perfect comfort. Crazy how such small changes make such huge differences.

I guess I wanted to share this because esp with the pedals I was concerned that my shoes were the culprit which isn't something cheap to fix (aka didn't want to have to go buy new shoes when I JUST bought these). Some testing here and there can really make your ride that much more comfortable.

And yes there's a typo in the title which i noticed after submitting, which apparently you can't change.

Alathea

That's a really cool observation. Kind of like, if you trend, not eating a poptart in the morning, in lieu of something else, or 1 less coke or MD during the day, over a month, is a big deal. I think we get hung up on major change, right now, gotta go and forget that little gains are important too.

Mr. Beanz

I went thru the same thing about a month ago. I swapped out my seat, same model, same brand but the firmness of the new one changed teh height a bit eventhough they measured the same while not seated on the bike.

I rode about 30 miles before the back of my leg started aching a bit. Know this as a rule and if it's the front, seat is to low. So I dropped the post about 1/8''. Made a big difference in comfort and immediately felt the power I was lacking while too high. I actually thought the previous ride was just a bad day till I dropped the seat.

Bill Kapaun

Discovered going to a little shorter crank made a MAJOR improvement in stamina and slight improvement in speed.