Anyone buying a new bike a bike-fit is a MUST

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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    smidsy wrote:
    So in a Top Gear style analogy what you are essentally saying is....having a bike fit for the leisure cyclist is akin to having tailor made football boots to go for a kick about in the park?

    An alternative point of view might be the opposite. If you commonly ride 8 or 9 hours in a day, you might be approaching twice the time in the saddle that a pro in a stage race is having to deal with. The bike fit might benefit you more than the pro.......
    Faster than a tent.......
  • lotus49
    lotus49 Posts: 763
    smidsy wrote:
    It's a bit like government, they have to change things or they are admitting that the previous lot were actually doing a damn good job, and that is clearly unacceptable. :-)

    So has anyone actually paid for a bike fit where the outcome was no changes required???
    I think this is an excellent point. I highly doubt anyone has (feel free to flood me with messages saying that you paid three different people and they all said stick to your current setup) which leads to one of two conclusions.

    The first is that no-one is capable of setting up a bike themselves. Bearing in mind that cyclists who do have a bike fit are almost always more experienced riders, how likely is it that, with the wealth of information available on the net that none of them can adjust their bike properly?

    The second and far more likely conclusion is that it's almost random and that you may find that you get someone good or you are lucky but then again, you may not.

    I don't doubt for a moment that for some people, a bike fit can make a big perceived difference. However, paying £200 for something that may or may not work almost at random does not seem a great deal, particularly when any perceived benefit may just be a a result of not wanting to admit wasting £200.
  • Froomes Edgar
    Froomes Edgar Posts: 359
    lotus49 wrote:
    smidsy wrote:
    It's a bit like government, they have to change things or they are admitting that the previous lot were actually doing a damn good job, and that is clearly unacceptable. :-)

    So has anyone actually paid for a bike fit where the outcome was no changes required???
    I think this is an excellent point. I highly doubt anyone has (feel free to flood me with messages saying that you paid three different people and they all said stick to your current setup) which leads to one of two conclusions.

    The first is that no-one is capable of setting up a bike themselves. Bearing in mind that cyclists who do have a bike fit are almost always more experienced riders, how likely is it that, with the wealth of information available on the net that none of them can adjust their bike properly?

    The second and far more likely conclusion is that it's almost random and that you may find that you get someone good or you are lucky but then again, you may not.

    I don't doubt for a moment that for some people, a bike fit can make a big perceived difference. However, paying £200 for something that may or may not work almost at random does not seem a great deal, particularly when any perceived benefit may just be a a result of not wanting to admit wasting £200.

    Exactly. What we need is for some individual with money to burn to go and get a bike fit, perhaps wearing chin putty, then book again in 6 months time under a different name. If the result of the second appointment is "no change" then a bike fit is probably still a load of pseudoscientific bolleaux, but at least its consistent.

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