Showing posts with label andvanced cycling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label andvanced cycling. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Be careful when there is a different foot length
As Andrew mentioned Andres certainly threw us some challenges. Here is one of the cyclists we fitted whose feet are not the same length.
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.
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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