2 bike fits today - what are you averaging

December 8^th and 2 bike fits

8 cleat wedges - average 2 per foot

(Remember we are the original company to make the inside the shoe wedge – most of the wedges we use are CLEAT WEDGES – if you are using more inside the shoe wedges than CLEAT WEDGES you are on the right track with the WEDGE but most likely falling a little short)

1 pairs of 20mm pedal spacers

1 Left Speedplay ¼ inch longer pedal

2 new saddles (average cost over $100 each)

2 new stems – both shorter

So what kinds of pedals were fit today? Obviously Speedplay was one. The other pair allowed a set of 20mm pedal spacers to be installed. That would rule out any pedal that threads onto the crank with an allen key only. This pedal allowed a pedal wrench to be used.

Think about this for a second - 4 pedals and 3 of them needed to be longer.

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."

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?

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

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.