Hey,
I can jump in here since I just had one of those eye opening bike fits with David on Saturday.
My background unfortunately is not competitive cycling but road biking, I’m from Europe. Approx 3-4K km each year including training camps in Spain, half iron and a dozen short courses per year.
I got referred to David from a semi professional crit racer with the same result and the referral to shorter cranks. I guess she is like 5”4, had 165mm crank before.
I never felt comfortable on a tri bike in aero for more than 2hours and have multiple threads here open with questions.
However, after tweaking a little bit around with position and another different saddle the key was to go down 2cm in crank length which resulted into 20-30watt immediately and comfortable aero on top!
I can’t wait to get my bike now fit with the latest mods. I have never been that excited since years.
And yes, I have been to a couple professional fitters before! Never ever before someone paid attention to crank length. It simply was never discussed. I have had food scans with insoles, cleats adjustments in millimeters with scanner and all that shit. Spiro test with oxygen in combination with running. Name it.
Just saying, it is definitely one of the things no one really pays attention to!
Thanks again David, I’m very excited to share with you the progress!!
I can jump in here since I just had one of those eye opening bike fits with David on Saturday.
My background unfortunately is not competitive cycling but road biking, I’m from Europe. Approx 3-4K km each year including training camps in Spain, half iron and a dozen short courses per year.
I got referred to David from a semi professional crit racer with the same result and the referral to shorter cranks. I guess she is like 5”4, had 165mm crank before.
I never felt comfortable on a tri bike in aero for more than 2hours and have multiple threads here open with questions.
However, after tweaking a little bit around with position and another different saddle the key was to go down 2cm in crank length which resulted into 20-30watt immediately and comfortable aero on top!
I can’t wait to get my bike now fit with the latest mods. I have never been that excited since years.
And yes, I have been to a couple professional fitters before! Never ever before someone paid attention to crank length. It simply was never discussed. I have had food scans with insoles, cleats adjustments in millimeters with scanner and all that shit. Spiro test with oxygen in combination with running. Name it.
Just saying, it is definitely one of the things no one really pays attention to!
Thanks again David, I’m very excited to share with you the progress!!