I am sure I am inviting calamity with this, but I am looking to the community to give me conflicting, but hopefully useful, advice. Tom in MI, I am really hoping you chime in. I have been playing with my positioning A TON in an effort to save my birthday “tri bucks” from my wife for wheels instead of a new frame. Seems some pros and non-pros alike thought my frame was too big at IM CDA. Since then I have dropped the headset all the way down, shortened the stem and flipped it over. In doing that, I slide my aeros forward so that my knees wouldn’t smack the back of my elbows. I rode my latest iteration today and it feels OK, but my neck is not the biggest fan. OK, so comments anyone? (and before anyone asks, that’s my training wheel on there in the back)
Shave your legs, shave your face, and a Cannondale?!!! WTF were you thinkin’, boy? Everybody knows you can’t go fast on nuttin’ but a cervelo. Pathetic!
I don’t know about you guys, but after I finished my Ironman this season, I decided that growing a beard would be OK. See, in the offseason, the hair collects, so that when I shave in season, I am really fast. Thanks for the heckles…
Seriously … I don’t know much about fit. Frm everything I have seen in TTB and other bike-fit articles, all of your “angles” look to be pretty good. Only thing I can see is that your low back looks a bit rounded, but I don’t know if that is acceptable or not.
You’re getting what you should expect to get when you post it on Sunday night. Only the yahoos are online.
Come monday morning when the “bike dudes” check in … you’ll get all of the contradicting advice you can handle.
I’ve noticed that “critique threads” are 90% peanut gallery razzing, and 10% useful.
If you would have titled it, "make fun of my half-beard, headphones, living room, telephone, wife’s bikini, (or other things people have noticed in others’ pics) … you’d probably only get serious critique comments. =)
Oh come on, we can’t work with a blank background here. There’s gotta be SOMETHING back there to poke at…some molding, carpet, wall color, etc. All we got is a ladder…hmmmm
A couple of things…the photo makes you look deceptively low–levelling your ft. and rear wheels would help a lot, as would a front shot. And seriously, a tighter jersey with empty pockets would help, as it seems your back has some crazy stuff going on!
All in all, it looks pretty good–though I think you’ll look a bit higher with the bike level.
I would slide the extensions back towards you a bit, and tilt them(along with the pads) down a bit. This will give you a little more leverage and you will be able to produce more power…but what do I know
Two very good cyclists/triathletes, who post here, don’t shave. since they can whip my A@#, I ain’t shavin’ until I can whip theirs. Since I’m older than they, this will happen when they get some severe injury or disease.
The angle of your upper arm relative to your torso looks a LITTLE bit open to me, suggesting that you may want to bring your clip-ons in a bit, or a slightly shorter stem (don’t know what you look like on the base bar). But that’s only by a LITTLE bit. Your knee does look a bit too straight also. Do your hips rock side to side when you’re riding?
Oh come on, we can’t work with a blank background here. There’s gotta be SOMETHING back there to poke at…some molding, carpet, wall color, etc. All we got is a ladder…hmmmm
The guy’s unshaven and it looks like he has rat sh*t on his floor, what more do you need?
Actually the position looks OK, though I’d roll the hips a little more forward and flatten the back. That may lengthen out your back’s reach and compensate for the fact that the top tube is too long on this bike.
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Thanks for the heckles…