new shoes = knee pain?

dawolfman

Hi, I got some new shoes a while back, sidi Genius 5, along with some look keo sprint. I just went out on my first long ride and after about 40 miles I started to get a dull ache under my left knee cap towards the bottom. It only seemed to ache when I opened out my knee; extended my leg. The pain was also elevated when I moved my knee closer to my top tube and aggravated when I move my knee further away.

I had a look at a few similar posts, and then point to visiting a physio...or adjusting cleat positions. I'm thinking it might be the cleats/pedals as I've never had this ache in my knee before. and my right knee feels fine. Either that or I damaged it while snowboarding earlier in the year.

Can anyone recommend a good physio in London? and are custom insoles worth the money as the side genius arches feel quite high compared to my old shoes.

Jonathan Mcp

Is it possible that the new shoes, and the new pedals, have altered the effective height between pedal axle & the base of your foot, or lowered it? This might have the effect of lengthening or shortenign the distance between saddle & pedal - causing a problem you didn't expereince with whatever you were using.

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Unknown

the last 2 weeks ive had something similar, but only after changing my chainset. Ive been playing around today, lowered my seat by 5mm, but also notedthe new chainset put the left pedal further out than my previous crankset. Adjusted the BB and moved the left crank arm into the bike by about 3mm, seems tohave done the trick.

I also have 2 pairs of shoes and this only happened with my sidis, not my ancient used all year round adidas.

JWSurrey

Cyclefit may be worth a visit, however they're not cheap for the analysis and footbeds - they get good reviews.
Check out the blurb on the Specialized website related to their "Body Geometry" shoes.
They talk about canting your foot over to prevent knee pain.

dawolfman

Thanks for the replys guys. I'm going to get some red cleats for my shoes, along with moving my foot back a notch and raising my seat a little, and give this a go. Fail this give the cycle fit guys a blast when I have a spare œ200.

105champcp

Give Rodger a call at Mosquito Bikes on essex rd. Very nice bloke, i had exactly the same issue. it's down to cleat position (saddle height/layback also play a part). As knees are tricky and you want to be pain free without it suddenly becoming an issue in a long race/run get them set up properly. I think it's œ35, but it's worth every penny.

dawolfman

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Give Rodger a call at Mosquito Bikes on essex rd. Very nice bloke, i had exactly the same issue. it's down to cleat position (saddle height/layback also play a part). As knees are tricky and you want to be pain free without it suddenly becoming an issue in a long race/run get them set up properly. I think it's œ35, but it's worth every penny.
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cheers for that. It certainly seems a bit more price friendly. I've used Mosquito before and found them to be pretty good...although they are popular so can be tricky to get booked in to the workshops.

I hope I can get this sorted before I do the British cyclosportive in a couple of weeks!

105champcp

I had two leg injuries in one year, after i recovered got some new shoes and pedals, however much tweaking and research i did, i still got knee pain at some point.
One cleat fitting, problems solved. He'll check your knee alignment with a laser pointer whilst your cycling and you can clearly see that you're set up properly and that's quite re-assuring.

dawolfman

excellent....that will take the guess work out of the equitation. I'll have to wait until my knee gets a bit better. Another trouble is I've got Glastonbury this weekend which will involve lots of walking around in mud!