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I'm wondering if seat choice and angle are the main driving factors in your shoulder pain?
The wisdom of the Internets is that shoulder pain generally means your seat needs to go back, I followed that and (my thinking is) closed up my hip angle and basically folded myself over, which was sub-optimal. Aero, but sub-optimal from a "make power" and "no pain" perspective.
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.
Pain:
No pain:
