Tuesday, November 24, 2009

A new world champion at the horizon?



This is the lovely Noemi Cantele, recently fitted by Candian super fitter out of Germany www.cyclefit.de Mr Lloyd Thomas! She is sporting a smile for one simple reason: Noemi wants to win Gold at the 2010 Cycling World Championships in both the TT and Road race. This is what she recently told me after having been fitted with the wedges: "The feeling I have since the first time I used the wedges is to pedal more compact and in a better symmetric way. I feel I have better use of all the the muscles, especially the back muscles of the leg. I have a better power transmission onto the pedals and the feet are more stable."

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Product recognition


Here is the new logo - when you see this you will know you are working with a product that will help your fitting as best as possible.


First place to see this is coming soon at ???? Can you guess who?

Monday, November 9, 2009

Wall Street Journal tomorrow


This past weekend I was honored to see former competitor and long time friend Nelson be inducted into the US Bicycling Hall of fame

Read about him tomorrow in the Wall Street Journal

Sunday, November 1, 2009

5 Bike Fits

CW = Cleat Wedge

ITS - In The Shoe

degrees

Nate

right

9 varus

2 varus CW

20mm pedal spacer

left

1 valgus

2 varus CW

20mm pedal spacer

Jamie

right

20 + varus

2 varus CW/2 ITS

left

20 + varus

1 varus CW/2 ITS

Chris

right

11 varus

2 varus CW/1 ITS

left

11 varus

2 varus CW/1 ITS

20mm pedal spacer

Dave

right

10 varus

3 varus CW

shorter spindle

right

2mm LL shim

left

10 varus

2 varus CW

Ken

right

11 varus

1 valgus cw

left

11 varus

1 valgus cw

5 fits

4.8

wedges

per cyclist

2.6

wedges

per right foot

2.2

wedgs

per left foot

As far as wedges go, how do you know the rider's body is aligned correctly?

I could write a book about this question. For the sake of trying to keep this interesting (stick with a short reply) I will offer a link and give a short answer.

http://bikefit.com/whywedge.php

Here are two basic things to consider. How does it look and how does it feel.

Looks – generally you will pedal with your knee tracking closer to a straight line. Whatever movement (knee pattern) or deviation you had before wedging, the goal is to reduce the knee movement that may go from side to side or some other pattern besides straight.

There is one illustration of this in the link above.

Feel – This is generally felt with a more even or balanced feeling near the ball of the foot when clipped into the pedal. Please see the bottom illustration of the diagram in the link.

Hope this helps.