What’s the most technologically advanced bike to be on the market in 2014, that you can ride up, down or on the flats, but that won’t actually deliver you to any destination? Might be this one.
by Dan Empfield, September 9, 2013
Trek joins Cannondale, Specialized and Shimano in unveiling its own, dynamic, sexy (tools included) bike fit protocol. Yes, Trek has had a fit school for years. But nothing like this.
Make way for Shimano, arguably the largest revenue seller worldwide of bicycle specific stuff. It’s entering the world of bike fit in a big way. It’s protcol? Well see. But that crank on its fit bike!
It’s official: the top-5 bike companies in the world each have a fit system. Not since the advent of the mountain bike have so many bike brands delved into something so not in their wheelhouses.
Last week I invited expert bike fitters to solve a theoretical conundrum facing many fitters and certain of their customers. I thought Slowtwitchers might like to see how some of the cleverer fitters operate.
Why are bike companies trying to sell you bikes marketed for cobblestones and potholes? They’re still testing out all but the obvious narratives for new road geometries that better fit many customers.
In our celebration of the Stacktennial, let us not ignore the ladies. The problem is, of course, the constraints placed on bike design if you mandate that the bike be built with 700c wheels.
It’s been 10 years since the metrics Stack and Reach were first described. February marked a decade since these terms first made it into print, at least according to my recollection.
Top pro triathlete Maik Twelsiek decided to try something which, for pros, is novel and rare: He got fit first, found the equipment that worked for him, before seeking a contract. Here’s how it went.
Ever consider your base bar? How it fits, if it’s safe, or even if it’s costing you time on the race course? As with many things, there’s more than meets the eye. We delve in to the particulars of this oft-ignored piece of equipment.
Seated, hands-on-hoods is one of five. If you’ve been fitted only to this position, you bought one-fifth of a proper fit session. All five postures inform both bike and handlebar geometries.
I’m forced to repent of a long held tradition of mine in bike fit. I’m abandoning, in some cases, the use of body angles as a determiner of position appropriateness.
This road bike fit protocol is designed to work with fit bikes that adjust horizontally and vertically; to take advantage of stack and reach data matching; and to consider all the positions common to road bike riding.
