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
Monday, November 9, 2009
Wall Street Journal tomorrow
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.