what is bike fitting?
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Posted 9 years ago #
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^ they measure you up on an adjustable rig so that they can get the correct dimensions for your bike. Either to see what sort of frame size you need or for a custom bulid.
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what is bike fitting?
It's a service offered by some bike shops. You sit in a frame which can be adjusted until your "ideal" bike position is found: reach, saddle height, saddle set-back etc. There are differing theories as to what the ideal position is and everyone is different. I've not done it but I hear good things about it.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Big shame. Planet X were very visible in their support for the NYD Triathlon. That shop had been The Tri Centre before it was Planet X. Don't think that Tri interests are now very well served in Edinburgh.
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Bike fitting is more usual among "serious" cyclists and triathletes. There are some who would suggest that it is for people with more money than sense... this could be why it is so popular with triathletes, who tend to have a lot more money than sense...
;-)(I've never had a bike fitting, but Boyfriend Of Fimm has)
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I've had a bike fitting and it was highly useful. The system they had (which is actually owned by http://www.edinburghbikefitting.com ) also has a "jig" system called Muve or something which allowed people to come in and be measured for any new bike before they bought it to ensure that they would fit the bike.
So certainly more for those who spend a lot on a bike and do sport cycling, but an excellent experience.
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Edinburgh Bike Fitting 2 colour3 by LaidBackBikes, on Flickr
EBF - work in progress by LaidBackBikes, on FlickrEBF will be open shortly in a completely re-furbished back room behind arch in our shop. Very interesting system using Retül technology. The owner Douglas Shaw is a Sports Science graduate from University of Edinburgh. Great to see a new niche business.
Fimm - I couldn't possibly comment!
Sorry to hear about the employees at PlanetX - I did use it for click and collect recently. However I've used Evans and EBC more often just as they had more. EBF was not employed by PlanetX and is separate operation.
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I was fitted for my racer by Tri-center and very comfortable it is too, well as comfortable as a road bike gets.
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Aha! Retul is the system that was used by the person Boyfriend went to - I can't remember where he went, but it was somewhere in England.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Is it time to take winter tires off yet?
Posted 9 years ago # -
Good question. Some folk already have.
I was planning on end February until we got this 'cold spell' forecast.
Posted 9 years ago # -
It was icy on Wednesday! I'm sticking to spikes for a few more weeks.
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Only had them on for two days and regretted both of those. There was one day when I wished I'd had them although got by fine without them.
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Did not put spikes on this winter but my routes largely main road. Paths often gritted.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I swapped out the winters on Thursday evening prompted by a bizarre rear-wheel 'moment'.
Basically I thought I'd somehow punctured, stopped and found the rear still had air (just not enough). So I topped it up a bit and then set off gently. About 100 m further on the rear wheel suddenly locked up and I was trying to brake and steer the bike to the kerb.
I've had all kinds of random, bizarro stuff happen to my bike. So imagine my surprise when I found the tyre 60% dismounted fromn the rim and the innertube wrapped python-like round my cassette. Deciding this wasn't fixable at the roadside, I shouldered my bike and trudged home, treating this as a bit of 'cross practice.
Back at the Ranch, or in the Ranch kitchen when milady wife wasn't looking, I surgically excised the innertube from the bike, even having to Stanley knife a section off the brake-block (brake block was INSIDE the innertube).
On inspection, the tyre looked fine...apart from a very short (3cm?) piece of wire poking out of the tyre, which I took to be a piece of the bead. I carefully trimmed this off - the sidewalls look untouched.
Back on the 28mm Rubinos and positively flew home on Friday night. Skinny rubber, how I've missed you...
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Mandopicker101 - were those the spiked tyres from PlanetX? Only reason I ask is that I also had a wire bead poke out and pucture me on one of mine.
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Galaxy - yes, these were Schwalbe Winters (700x30c I think), bought in November last year from PX.
Having had 'issues' with tyres and my rims in the past, I did look quite carefully at the bead etc on the Winters and didn't notice anything obvious. Admittedly I was checking for any hint of studs coming through the carcass.
That said, I've had a couple of punctures whilst rolling with the Winters. At the time I put them down to pinch-flats caused by the craters on the road into Musselburgh. One was definitely a rubbish inner turbe where the seal around the valve just went. I'll check both tyres when I get home tonight...
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One of mine had the wire beading sticking out - not bought from PX though.
I tried to to 'fix' it but this resulted in the spectacular downhill blow out which wrote about in December on a previous thread.
Seems to be a few that have this defect...
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You can google around and find plenty examples reported on "other" forums over issues with Marathon-type tyres and their beads. Whether or not this is more or less common than for other types of tyres, I have not had the chance to scientifically test.
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Maybe worth speaking to Schwalbe then, direct?
I'm rolling on Rubinos at the moment, 'thrilling' at this time of year, but at the least I'd prefer my tyres aren't actively out to get me...
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Reminds me; I'm in the middle of a right faff trying to extract a refund from PlanetX for a spiked tyre they failed to deliver at the end of January. They're claiming it was delivered to a flat that doesn't exist.
Probably just an isolated incident, but I won't be buying from them again...
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I finally got round to poking at the Schwalbe Winter I took off the back of the sparebike after it flattened overnight the other week - no visible huge rents in the tube and no actual protruding studs on the inside of the tyre, but you can see where they'll start to wear through; plan is to boot it with the impenetrable carcass of an Armadillo before re-using next year. Twelve studs disappeared, most commonly in patches of two or three, probably where I had some wheel-lock when braking.
Also still not received my (spare, battery, so fortunately not urgent) lights, redirected to Sheffield when Edinburgh closed and then lost in the post on their first retry. Don't Planet X use Yodel for deliveries? My wife had some texts or emails from them at the end of last week claiming they'd delivered something but I didn't twig until today that it might have been their second attempt.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Wish they were still open, I would be returning the merino cardigan which has turned into a 'Small' after two washes having started out XL.
Not really acceptable, given all my Endura merino washes just fine.
Baa
Posted 9 years ago # -
Wingpig - yes they use Yodel for packages over a certain value (a couple of innertubes = Royal Mail; new tyres = Yodel)
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