ST’ers,
Please help me get more aero. I have attached a link to youtube.com showing me in motion, as as well as a link to a still picture.
I’ll start: (1) lower your seat; (2) remove spacers.
Thanks in advance.
ST’ers,
Please help me get more aero. I have attached a link to youtube.com showing me in motion, as as well as a link to a still picture.
I’ll start: (1) lower your seat; (2) remove spacers.
Thanks in advance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MSsvvnVu0M
http://xs208.xs.to/xs208/06450/IronboomPosition.jpg
no comments?
If you insist. Lower your seat a bit, remove the spacers, slide your saddle forward.
psssh this is ST we know all.
Grant
You’ve got lots of cash for all the pimped out gear, but haven’t been to a pro fitter? OR so it seems. I think any good fitter would have told you to lower your seat. I can tell it is too hight because your toe is pointed down at the bottom of your pedal stroke. The guy who fit me gave me some fo the best advice ever “HEELS DOWN” … he placed a small sticker on the stem so i see the “heels down” yelling at me everytime I look down. You’ll instantly be 0.5 mph faster.
Good luck.
It cracks me up more that there are about 20 readily available pictures on ST that you could go off of to get a very close fit yet no one seems inclined to look at those.
There is even an article written by slowman and one by Tom D with plenty of info.
Grant
How much faster are you on the trainer with the Zipps?
Someone has to say this…
That might not be the bike for you. Nice bike though.
Dude, your torso has is too short - add a couple of discs. Then go out and buy a bike that is actually the right size for you. Other than that, it all seems OK.
You need to lower your seat and move forward on your seat. With a slack geometry bike like the old Trek, you probably need to buy a new seat post like the Profile Design Fast Forward. Also cut those aero bar extensions, way too long.
Your seat it too high.
But compare your position to Lance’s.
Either way I’d lower the seat, lose the spacers and cut the extensions.
But Lance looked similar on his bike:
Regardless of what anyone else says, do you like the slack geometry? I’ve ridden my P3 with both and prefer slack.
Could I suggest you take a look at gtingley’s lswt thread. His superman position could be the key for you.
Assuming swapping frame to the next size up is not possible, you could swap the stem for a longer one to stretch you out a bit, and lose a spacer to help with this.
IMHO Comfort, aerodynamics, and power are a tripod, and we all place emphisis on a different leg of the tripod.
Agree with some of the above. While most here advocate riding steep. If you look at the Lance photos you can be fast riding slack. Also, some say you can put out more power riding slack. Having said that your seat is too high.
You should lose the spacers, drop your seat down, and as some have mentioned cut the extensions on your aerobars. They are too long.
Its not how much more power you can put out over riding steep vs. shallow its how much power can you put out riding then how fast you can run and you are done riding.
Thats why riding steep helps.
Grant
Lance is (was) under a completely different set of geometrical restrictions. Don’t use that as an example of what is ideal.
ST’ers,
Please help me get more aero. I have attached a link to youtube.com showing me in motion, as as well as a link to a still picture.
I’ll start: (1) lower your seat; (2) remove spacers.
Thanks in advance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MSsvvnVu0M
http://xs208.xs.to/xs208/06450/IronboomPosition.jpg
(3) Get a different size frame. (Before you spend the $3K, remember this is ST).
-jens
I don’t see how Lance is/was under any different restrictions than see Zabriski or Cancellara. Surely Lance even with UCI rules could have set his bike up legally but still rode steeply. He chose not to. Curious do you know why?
how does the position feel?
What are you race results?
Obviously, the only way to really know is to spend $1000 and go to a wind tunnel.
But like everyone has said, you need to lower tour seat.
It’s funny how the youtube action video looked OK, but the static picture does not.
Fleck