sorry heres pic www.spokanediscount.com/steve/steveonbike(1).JPG

I saw that you signed your name "tia" and I was picturing someone who looked like Tia Carerre. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement.

by the way..my neck and shoulders hurt a lot at the 60mile mark and on but maybe thats normal..im a newbie

The purple Neon has gotta go!

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shorter stem and remove some spacers

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Brian Stover USAT LII
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Your gutter is broken

As you can see, you have ZERO chance of getting a normal answer to bike fit on this forum unless you have tits.

It's all about comfort! If your neck and shoulders are getting stiff try relaxing your upper body and change your position which the course will demand anyway. The scenery is beautiful, so look around and enjoy the ride. This should help with the stiffness.

Good luck!

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Enjoy the journey!

Amen to that!

Kinda strange though, it's usually how it works with teenagers but I think we have more than our share of old dogs in here don't we :-D

;-)

I hope you'll get some feedback

Neck/shoulders are already bugging him. Losing spacers will make that worse. Agree on shortening the stem, looks as stretched out as I like to be, which is surely a sign of "iffy" fit. Note: I am slowly beginning to like a more of what I considered a choked up position, which is ~90 degrees, and the proper/preferred position.

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tell your neighbors to cut their grass.

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I'm no expert....but your position looks kind of like mine before my fit. Your shoulders appear to be very curved, as though you are reaching your elbows to the pads, not by flattening your back but by curving your shoulders instead. I'd bet you could raise your pads on a riser, uncurve your shoulders and not raise your back at all. This may also help your neck at about mile 60!!

BTW.....at one point the fitter raised my areobars up about 10cm and my back came up only 2cm. My shoulders were VERY curved. I got mcuh faster and was way compfy!!

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At least he is showing some nipple. More than I can say for the supposedly hot women on this forum.

Good point. Which also means he could use some more flexibility in the low back, hips, and glutes.

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Try moving the saddle forward...or go with a shorter stem.
Your forearms should be parallel. They look like they are pointing down slightly.
Back and neck pain could be caused by elbow pads being too close together, try to widen them a little bit.

Very nice clothes line in the pic.

Whatever you do, don't change anything before CDA. If you've been riding like that for all your training thus far, I wouldn't change anything this close to the race.

Woud definitely get your bars closer to the saddle - a stem about an inch shorter would be welcome - this should address the shoulder issue, as you're using your muscles, rather than your bones, to support your upper body.

Not sure you have time to try it before Coeur D'Alene, though...except if you KNOW that your upper back will suffer on 180k, then I would risk changing the stem and trying it in a 2h easy ride beforehand to make sure you are at least as comfortable, if not more...

Good luck at CDA!