The time has come where I need to start caring about my aero position. Here is a picture from Louisville this past weekend - I actually decided to make some changes race week and dropped out a 10mm spacer stack. I figured some feedback would never hurt. FWIW, The last time I actually got a fit was in 08 aboard a Trek TTX and I actually undid all the changes immediately after the fit. Just be thankful I didn’t post a video of my swim form or run form. Slay away.
IM Louisville 2012
UPDATED 9/14/2012
IM Wisconsin 2012 - Saddle down just a few MM, extensions moved back many CM without moving back arm pads, so rotated the pads up which moved them up and in a little bit.
Well it is not a disaster, but that is the only nice thing to say. Passable but in no way an example of what to do. Seat is maybe a touch high, even if you really want to pedal toe down. I would say you could easily ride a little lower up front, but the final arbiter of that is your self selected hip angle. I would be quite surprised if after being guided through a FIST or FIST like process of fitting if you were still riding that high. Hip angle looks to be in the ballpark of 110 degrees to my eyeball.
One thing I can say for certain is wherever you end up, it is very nice to not have to reach for the shifters each time you want to change a gear. In related news, your wrists are in a slightly cockeyed angle. Tension travels, so get those wrists straight and relaxed.
Actually, ya I was thinking on Sunday how annoying it was to reach up and shift on a rolling course like Louisville. It reminded me of how nice DI2 is but then again that is not something I can afford to have at the moment, cutting down the extensions may be a solution.
Not sure exactly how those extensions work, but cutting them down might not help that funky wrist angle as much as sliding them back, if that is possible. It looks like you want most of that height but not the reach.
IF you’re going to try to get lower in front, you’ll hafta move forward as well.
This might solve all your “issues” - seat won’t be “too high” anymore (as you’ll slide it forward a bit), and your hands will be further out on your extensions.
So there may be no need to cut them down or slide them back.
Forget the position. Tell me about that disc cover!
I get asked a lot of questions about that. It is just a Zipp Firecrest Carbon Clincher with strapping tape to make it into a disc. A normal disc cover is too wide and rubs on my Speed Concept speed sensor and a real disk is too stiff and my bike is too old and too corroded to have a well functioning rear brake so I am stuck with a spoke wheel so it doesn’t constantly rub the rear brakes. It isn’t the cleanest disc wheel you have ever seen, but I never think it is slowing me down at all.
Too steep for how high you are in front…Probably why you have the seat as high as you do…
…or too high for how steep you are …but if you can’t tilt your pelvis foward rotate around the bottom bracket than may a seat issue…
so I say this because if you wanted to ride that high in front (which you probably don’t…) you could ride more slack…but than you will most likely have the same comfort/stabiltiy issue because you would still have a problem relaxing/rotating your pelvis down…
Things STers say…“Your seat is too high”…Things they don’t not say…is why…You should not have to move your seat forward for comfort with respect to keeping a relatively vertical torso…and than raising your saddle to compensate for a pedal stroke that has been cut off…
