“What I have available to me for bikes with Specialized is the pick of the litter, which is sweet,” she told BikeRadar just a couple of hours before her first lap. “I’ve been riding the Fate almost exclusively since Leadville last year and somewhat experimentally with stage racing, taking it to Costa Rica for La Ruta [de los Conquistadores] and Trans Andes.”  Read the rest at…

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Of Man and Machine

If the Bike Don’t Fit, You Will Get Bit

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Bruce Davis of Hazard's Cyclesport

Trying to ride a bike that’s not properly fitted is a bit like listening to someone play an out-of-tune violin. In both instances, pain ensues. I learned this the hard way. In recent months I fussed and fidgeted with my ancient (but form-fitted) road bike, changing saddles, seat posts, and cleated bike shoes, all in short order. In the process, I heedlessly messed up a carefully calibrated ecosystem of ergonomic geometry. Before long, the constellation of muscles around my right hip and hamstring became an aching ball of chronic pain. Adding a dash of humiliation to this excruciation, people twice my age — and three times my body mass — were now passing me by without breaking a sweat (not that I’m the least bit competitive). I sought to re-adjust my cleats. What was bad just got worse. A ferocious charley horse attacked my left calf and wouldn’t let ago. As a weekend road warrior and hard-core bicycle commuter, this approximated an existential crisis in the first degree. I was a gimp.

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