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Maybe try riding the Klein on some slightly longer distance ( within reason ) rides and see if this position highlights any new problems? You can work out various aspects of bike-fit yourself, but it takes time and experimentation; you may prefer to just ride your bike.
If bike-fitting isn't something you're interested in experimenting with ( no reason why it should be at Talbot, as Matt has Scherrit for that ), then get a pro to check you out. Someone like the bike-whisperer would probably spot straight away, something it could take you months of fiddling to discover.
I am quite surprised that someone so interested in training data doesn't have all these measurements committed to memory :-)
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I am quite surprised that someone so interested in training data doesn't have all these measurements committed to memory :-)
Hah, yeah - I'm pretty happy with my ability to make a bike that looks good and works well, beyond that I just get on it and ride it, I do need to work on how I actually fit the bike and vice versa.
Dammit
Riddle me this, Internerdz.
I've been riding my Klein Criterium for the past couple of days, and it's been rather eye-opening.
It's (by what I thought I knew) too small for me - it's a 56, so I've got a 130mm stem on it.
However, the front is low- properly low, so I was expecting this to be a bit uncomfortable.
It's so pretty i was prepared to forgive it this foible.
But - it's really comfortable. It's also really, really fast.
Now I started thinking about that on the way home - the why is it fast - and it's stiff, but so are my other bikes, this had to mean that I felt that putting out the power was easier.
Tootling round Dulwich Park I considered this, now one thing that always happens on my other bikes is that when I'm on the drops and really cranking my knees hit my chest.
Not on the Klein - a lot of clearance between quad and rib.
My thinking is that I've got a much more open hip angle due to being further forward, hence the lower front being fine and the chest/knee thing not happening as I'm essentially rotated forward around the BB in relation to my other bikes.
Oddly, also, and this might just be the short nature of the rides, but I've suffered from dreadful shoulder pain for years now, which I blamed on having a lot of weight on my hands, but on the Klein, despite definitely being quite far forward and having a fair amount of weight on my hands I'm not suffering from the usual pain at all.
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