With the advent of cycling shoes becoming stiffer and stiffer over the past decade addressing this issue is much easier than in the past. The stiffer sole allows us more fore/aft cleat placement range.
Standing (off the bike) leg length can be one thing but on the bike it can be another if one has one foot longer than the other. In the video below if we placed the cleats under the ball of each foot we would have effectively created a different leg length. By moving the cleat back on the longer foot and maybe even a little forward on the shorter foot we can help even leg length on the bike in this scenario.
Hope you enjoy this one as much as we all did in Fayetteville.
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteI just fitted one of my team mates who has a foot length discrepancy. I put the cleats on the ball of the foot on both and one of them is a bit further back on the shoe. The shoes are the same size. He mentioned that it takes a bit more thought to disengage the shorter foot from the pedal now, but everything else is great. Should I reevaluate and move both cleats?
Hector in Germany