Remote bike position video analysis

Coming soon.

This is not an online bike fit, this is still far better getting done 1 to 1 with an experienced fitter, but an online video analysis of what I think maybe right or wrong with your position and bike set up. I will give advice on how far out you may be (or how spot on you are!), any equipment changes and set up that may help.

People will be required to take a short video clips with their iPad, iPhone, iTouch or similar, of them riding a turbo with side, front and rear views, also of the bike without the rider on it.

More news coming soon, on when I will start and cost likely to be £59.99

Email cadencesportbikefit@gmail.com for full instructions.

Bike fit feedback

This was someone who'd had their saddle too low for 2-3 years by 3cm, he was for ever tinkering with his position by a few mm here and there, forever shuffling around in the saddle trying to find somewhere comfy to sit, wanting to try different saddles, but he was so far out a few mm here and there would have made no difference what so ever. By the way we adjusted the angle of his drops and brakelevers separately.

Hi Adrian What can I say – wow!

We did a super hilly ride today with 7K ft climbing in 50 miles including hardknott (>30%), wyrnose (25%) and a few others

My backside was locked to the saddle, no shuffling whatsoever and far more comfortable! 

Power improvement is just incredible – I did wyrnose totally seated and only got out of the saddle for a portion of hardknott, my mates were absolutely astonished as they were out of the saddle pretty much all the way

My legs feel no pain whatsoever, I can feel they’re slightly tired but absolutely nothing like before, I would have been in pieces previously I think this will be a massive improvement for me, thanks and well done!

 All the best John

The Autobus

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36349159@N03/5546732724/in/set-72157625648822151 This is not something i've really talked about, It's only the last few years i've realised what i achieved to make Paris, and it was only when i went to the the Alps about 4years ago with my friend Kieran Frend that i really understood. I have to admit that first day the mountains with Ki i shed a tear, climbing back over the Lautaret it bought it all back, well it bought a lot of things back, it made me realise how ill prepared we were to ride the mountains, i'd never seen the Alpes let alone ride them before the Tour, I'd won a stage of the Midi Libre just before the Tour, but that was just in the foothills of the Pyrenees, there was no pre Tour training camps for us it was straight to the Tour and i think it was the fact i never got to ride the Tour again that really got me, even after all the pain the Tour throws at you you want to go back for more. Also that i never achieved my full potential and that maybe the Tour was the best i ever was!! Climbing back over the Lautaret with Ki back to our digs the emotions came out and i'm man enough to say i started crying, even though Ki could have easily have dropped me he stayed with me, i don't think he quite knew how emotional i was but he knew being back in the mountains was bringing someting back, we didn't speak up the mountain, i don't think he knew what to say and i could have said anything anyway as i was too chocked, he didn't need to say anything anyway just riding with me was enough, at the top we stopped hugged, again we didn't say anything, we didn't need too, even if he only knew a little bit he knew those last few km ment something.......Cheers Ki. Life in the 'autobus!' This is the bit you rarely see on TV, most of the time all you see is the front of the race and the race for victory, not the daily survival to get to the finish inside the time limit, trying to make the next day and get to Paris, you rely on the veterans of the Tour to set the pace, they are the ones who know how much time we can lose on each climb, who set a pace not too slow, but also not too fast that we are wasting energy for the next day, these veterans are human calculators passing on their experience onto the autobus newbies. My worse day in the 'bus was the day after Alpe du Huex, the only real day i didn't think i would make Paris, we started on the Alpe but it was neutrialised to the bottom before the start proper, where we stopped to take off capes from the early morning cold desent, from the start proper, km zero, we had to climb the Lautaret and the Galibier, which happens to be about 50km of climbing in one go, tired from the day before i didn't feel great, which wasn't helped by the fact that Roche had his team attack from the gun, it wasn't long before i was in trouble and thinking i can't take this pace hoping the autobus would start soon, but those Tour veterans knew it was too early to start the bus as there was still 180km of racing to go, with the Lautaret, Galibier, Madeleine and the finish to La Plagne to climb, to many mountains to climb and to much time to loose. I think it must have been less than 10km into the Lautaret when i cracked and swung out of the line unable to take any more, or so i thought, as i drifted back Paul Kimmage shouted at me to get back in the line, saying it was too early to sit up, getting some strength from somewhere i got back on the line of riders praying i could hang on, my prayers were answered a few km later when it split, but it was still far to early to sit up completely, the veterans knowing we still had to make a good pace to make the time limit. The only real recovery we had that day were the desents, because when hit the valley roads we still had to ride through and off and it wasn't until we hit La Plagne the pace eased off, the veterans knowing we had plenty of time to make the time cut, but only after calculating how many minutes a km we could loose in the last few km. Me, Malc, Palov and Guy finished the day 34min 15sec down on stage winner Fignon, ready to fight the next day, another day in the mountains to Morzine, but one day closer to Paris. Looking at this photo i can still feel the pain.

ANCPeugeot 1987 Tour de France bike rebuild

Bike fitting pain relief

Hi Adrian


I just wanted to give you an update on how I've been getting on following my bike fit a few weeks ago.


I mentioned at the time that I was training towards the Tour of Wessex multi-day sportive. Since we met I have been doing 3-4 hour rides and started to put back to back rides together on weekends. I am pleased to say I have had none of the pains that affected me before, no issues with hand/wrist ache and even more of a relief, no back problems at all. I have even managed to swap to wider bars and replicate the position again following your advice.


So, I just wanted thanks again for the fit and the other tips/advice you gave, it was worth every penny. I have been singing your praises wherever I can too!


I hope your own training is going well.


Cheers


Austin

The TT saddle shuffle!

The TT saddle shuffle, this is my opinion on the constant shuffling that you see riders make in TT's, such as Kreuziger in Tirreno Adriatico, as in my previous blog about some riders setting their saddle height based on riding on the nose of the saddle then setting the front end of the bike based on just riding on the nose making them solid and with no movement on the saddle, i think the riders that shuffle around set their saddle height based on sitting in the middle of the saddle but base the front end of the bike based on riding on the nose, but here is the problem they start sat in the middle of the saddle but the front pulls them on to the nose of the saddle, which in affect is like lowering your saddle by up to a cm while you are riding and loosing about 5-10 degrees of leg extension, in affect loosing power, so they constantly push themselves back to gain more power (measure your own saddle from centre of BB to middle of the saddle, then BB to 2-3cm back from tip of saddle and see the difference) If a rider likes sitting in the middle of the saddle he should set the front of the bike to keep him in that position.

These are just my observations, but could be wrong and they just have a nervous twitch!

TT saddle postion

Having watched a certain rider on the track and in tt's he never seems to sit in the saddle but on the nose of it (watch Paris Nice final tt up Col d'Eze), this may be to get his very aero position around the UCI rule that the tip of the saddle should be 5cm behind the vertical line of the bottom bracket, his bike will be within the rules, but by setting his position (saddle height/correct leg extension) on the tip of the saddle he has effectively moved the imaginary tip of the saddle in front of the BB, allowing him to ride further forward which in effect opens the hip flexers up, which allows him to get in to his very flat aero position. I think a few other teams should look at this for there own riders! Saddle height taken 2-3cm back from tip of saddle is very differant than that taken from the middle of the saddle.


These are just my thoughts and observations on this and i could be totally wrong!! But a lot of teams could learn alot from what this certain rider on their very non aero riders, but it doesn't mean that they can get in to that position!