Anyone else fit oblivious?
10-12-05, 06:51 PM
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Anyone else fit oblivious?
I have NO feel for fit whatsoever. I just ride the bike, I can vaguely feel if I'm streached out on a way too big frame, but that's it. One time my seat tube fell completely in (over 4 inches) and I didn't notice until someone said, "hey, what happened to your seatpost??!?!"
My handlebars are a couple cm to big, and god knows what else, but it doesn't bother me. I know this could be bad for efficiency, but it's not like I can get fitted properly if I can't feel it. Is anyone else unfazed by centimeters or even inches?
Should I do anything about it?
My handlebars are a couple cm to big, and god knows what else, but it doesn't bother me. I know this could be bad for efficiency, but it's not like I can get fitted properly if I can't feel it. Is anyone else unfazed by centimeters or even inches?
Should I do anything about it?
10-12-05, 07:16 PM
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Wow. I could feel a 1cm drop in the seatpost or a 1cm stem difference. I ride lots of longer rides (i.e., metric centuries, imperial centuries, etc.), so after five or six hours, anything that's slightly off will be making itself known. I don't know that I could feel the different widths of handlebars or crank lengths though.
If you can't feel the difference between different sizes, then you can't tell. My other sport is alpine skiing; there are certain aspects of skis that some of my friends think are obviously different from brand to brand; I couldn't tell the difference to save my life. It doesn't affect my enjoyment.
If you can't feel the difference between different sizes, then you can't tell. My other sport is alpine skiing; there are certain aspects of skis that some of my friends think are obviously different from brand to brand; I couldn't tell the difference to save my life. It doesn't affect my enjoyment.
10-13-05, 03:59 AM
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The great Lance Armstrong is called Mr. mm by his teammates for hopefully the right reason 
Seriously...he can feel if his bike set up is off by a mm or two. Honestly, I am the same way. When I had my bike apart not long ago, I reduced headset spacer height by about 3 mm's and didn't like the change...wasn't imagined...just makes a difference to someone really in tune with their bike fit. Another example is...after riding my bike for a few hundred miles the handlebars can rotate a few degrees down....incremental slippage from riding and sprinting in the drops. After a while I notice my fit doesn't feel just right and sure enough, I look at the bars and see they have rotated by me loading them with my weight forward. I like my Campy hood lands just about dead level to the ground..perhaps even a degree up. Believe if you got into tweaking fit, you would become more aware of how a small change makes a big difference in comfort and performance...it does to many that ride seriously. You may not know what just the right fit feels like cause you haven't sweated all the bad fit scenarios...more of a journey then a destination.
HTH,
George
Seriously...he can feel if his bike set up is off by a mm or two. Honestly, I am the same way. When I had my bike apart not long ago, I reduced headset spacer height by about 3 mm's and didn't like the change...wasn't imagined...just makes a difference to someone really in tune with their bike fit. Another example is...after riding my bike for a few hundred miles the handlebars can rotate a few degrees down....incremental slippage from riding and sprinting in the drops. After a while I notice my fit doesn't feel just right and sure enough, I look at the bars and see they have rotated by me loading them with my weight forward. I like my Campy hood lands just about dead level to the ground..perhaps even a degree up. Believe if you got into tweaking fit, you would become more aware of how a small change makes a big difference in comfort and performance...it does to many that ride seriously. You may not know what just the right fit feels like cause you haven't sweated all the bad fit scenarios...more of a journey then a destination.HTH,
George
10-13-05, 04:13 AM
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The great Lance Armstrong is called Mr. mm by his teammates for hopefully the right reason
10-13-05, 04:18 AM
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I can't tell the differance between a TT bike, and a Schwinn Chopper bike.
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10-13-05, 10:19 AM
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It must be nice to be short enough to ride any bike. Imagine being 6'6" like me and trying to fit in a world made for midgets. There's no way I can afford a bike that's the right size for me. So I make do. Like changing the stem on my bike to raise the bars. I think I got it fit for me now.
