Fine-Tune Your Bike Fit (On Your Own!)
The TriDot Triathlon Podcast
TriDot Triathlon Training
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Since the bike leg is the longest part of any triathlon a proper bike fit is essential for performance, comfort, and injury prevention. While a professional fit is ideal, it's not always accessible. This week, Coaches Jeff Raines and Sion McIntosh join the show to share practical advice on how to fine-tune your bike fit at home. You'll learn how to better understand your body's unique needs and identify common adjustments your fit may require over time. We’ll also cover when and how to modify your setup, explore both low-tech and high-tech tools to analyze your position, and discuss key differences in fit strategies for short-course vs. long-course racing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the trydout podcast. Today I have coach Sean McIntosh. He coaches for the precision |
| 0:05.7 | race team, a top ranked team in the EU. And we have coach Jeff Raines, who is the lead coach |
| 0:11.5 | of Team Raines. They are joining us to talk about how to dial in your bike fit on your own. |
| 0:18.1 | We always advocate for working with a proper fitter, but reality is there are times. |
| 0:23.5 | Your fit may need some tweaking, it may need some attention, and you may not always have the time, |
| 0:28.2 | budget, or accessibility to get that proper fit. So hopefully this conversation helps you out |
| 0:33.8 | with that fit on the bike. I'm Andrew the average triathlet, voice of the people, and captain |
| 0:38.5 | of the middle of the pack. We treat the show like any good workout. We'll start with a warm-up |
| 0:42.3 | question, settle into our main set conversation talking about how to tweak your own bike fit, |
| 0:47.5 | and then we'll wind things down by having our coaches answer an audience question as our cool down. |
| 0:53.4 | Lots of good stuff. |
| 0:55.0 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:03.6 | This is the Tridot podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with every conversation. |
| 1:04.9 | Let's get started with today's warm-up. |
| 1:08.7 | Coach Sean, Coach Jeff, for our warm-up question today, I want to know, out of all the |
| 1:14.2 | triathlon events you have raced, what individual bike split are you the most proud of? |
| 1:21.3 | So this doesn't have to be like where the whole race clicked, just like the individual |
| 1:25.1 | bike split. |
| 1:26.3 | What's when you think bats and you're like, yeah, that's the one I smash. |
| 1:29.1 | That's the one I want to tell friends and family about and brag on myself on. Take a second. Bragg on yourself. Tell us about your best bike split. Coach Sean, welcome the podcast for the first time. I'll kick this over to you. Awesome. Thank you for having me. Yeah. I actually think if we're talking about my own bike split, |
| 1:46.5 | it was probably I'm a Mioka three or four years ago. I actually didn't have a great day that day, |
| 1:53.4 | but I had spent a ton of time doing some wind tunnel testing beforehand and optimizing my bike fit. |
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