Yes I have a lot of shit in my (well, landlords) basement. Golf clubs, bike stuff, wife’s teaching portfolios and other junk. Don’t give a damn because the only thing I do in it is sweat on the bike or do laundry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtaBUZKaxBk
There are a few different helmet positions, head positions, and I slowed it down about halfway through for a few seconds. Went from large chainring to small somewhere in there too, thus the sudden increase in cadence.
Let the roast begin…
lose 25lbs first ???
At 5’11, 170 thats highly unlikely…
190 cm 78kg…try again matey…my post was more of a cheeky bump so the morning crowd can say something more sarcastic about your basement
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metric? what is this nonsense?! I couldn’t tell if you were serious or just a ribbing…
Just because it is a basement is no reason to leave it looking like a pigs pen ! Get a helmet that fits so you keep from playing with it. Take a few spacers out and tilt your aerobars down or at least make them even. Unless you went to the tunnel with that guy that won Eagleman on a old Zipp with rusty ball cups as a fairing And you really do not have to pray while trying the praying mantis style.
With rusty balls I think I’d be better served seeing a doctor
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—It looks like your flexibility is lacking a bit so dont go for such and aggressive aero position (bring your bars up)
—Your legs arent looking fully extended (do your knees hurt a bit after hills and long rides) bring your seat post up (does your back get sore?)
—Your knees look like they over shoot your toes a bit i would move your saddle back a little bit and then bring your aero bars in or spring for a shorter stem
this kind of advice is not allowed on slowtwitch. Seat are always too high, bars can never be too low and the only solution for not being able to reach low bars comfortably is to move the sadlle further forward so you can get more aero.
You gotta trim some fat. I have ~2 inches on you and weigh about 10 lbs. less.
Also are you comfy? You don’t look like it.
The straps on bib shorts are supposed to go over the shoulders, not hang down around your waist.
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No professional fit…in medical school so too poor for that (and wife is job searching)
Flexibility seems fine…I mean I don’t have a problem getting my knuckles to the floor
Bring seatpost up? Wow never heard that on ST before!!
Hmm…never thought of moving saddle back.
—It looks like your flexibility is lacking (stretch the hammies more) a bit so dont go for such and aggressive aero position (bring your bars up)
—Your legs arent looking fully extended (do your knees hurt a bit after hills and long rides) bring your seat post up (does your back get sore?)
—Your knees look like they over shoot your toes a bit i would move your saddle back a little bit and then bring your aero bars in or spring for a shorter stem
Not sure how one questions flexibility without signs like rocking hips, which I don’t see.
Legs shouldn’t be fully extended. I stopped the video at 27 sec (grabbed a random bottom of stroke) and the knee looks to be plenty straightened, perhaps too straight.
Unless riding quite slack, knee will almost always extend beyond toes, definitely beyond the spindle. Knee over spindle isn’t supported in the literature to my knowledge, just cycling lore.
lose 25lbs first ???
+1
that helmet is not good for your position.
I think you’re candidate for shorter cranks.
Quit looking at the camera,
your legs need to extend more at the bottom of the stroke
and for gos sake get rid of your helmet if it does not fit.
yeah i just wanted to re iterate…i am not a fitter, or a pro with lots of experience…i just repeated what i learned…i may be wrong…ive been wrong before, ill probably be wrong again… deleteing my precious post due to posting it with stupidity…
Your hip angle is super cut off…open it up or you will lose power. Shorter cranks might help open that angle up, but you need to bring the bars up.
I’ve only been cycling for about 45 years and have to admit that most of my experience is on road bikes. But, my first impassion is that your cockpit is too small. By that I mean that you are too bunched (balled?) up. Knees are too far forward and too close to your elbows.
This can be changed by various adjustments, including but not limited to, stem length (longer), seat position (back further), longer top tube (new Bike). Drop stack height, raise seat (although leg extension will limit this).
As a start point I still set my seat at the point where the front of knee passes through the pedal crank and then adjust from there. My adjustments go something like this: adjust seat for & aft, adjust seat height, adjust stem length, adjust bar (stack) height and then all the smaller things like pedal clip, bar rotation, hood level etc.
Note that any change you make will feel weird at first you need to give it a bit of riding. If you experience pain or continued discomfort, then it was not a good change. Once you are close only make one small change at a time.
I’ve been considering it. Those are 175’s
I do feel a bit “balled” up. Not sure if I can raise the seat anymore due to my stumpy legs. I do know that when I get out of the saddle the bars can get in the way of my knees sometimes.
Stack height is pretty low as I have an Oval Concepts adjustable stem slammed as far down as it’ll go. If I adjust it up a little, that will lengthen the reach a small amount as well.