Performance Process: Comfort, power, and aero – navigating trends and the modern bike fit
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Dan Bigham once said something along the lines of, get aero and train the body to sustain it: it's easier than getting stronger. As much as that makes sense, it's also not how we have typically thought of bike fitting. Our focus has typically been on comfort, power production, perhaps symmetry. But like so much in cycling, how we think about bike fitting is changing.
In this episode of Performance Process episode Ronan is joined by Daniel Schade, CEO of Gebiomized and the fitter working with Bigham at at the Ineos Grenadiers to find a balance in those aero positions , to discuss how bike fitting is changing and the pros and cons of some of the current trends.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:05.0 | add to running your favorite cycling podcast sick of shallow bike reviews. |
| 0:09.0 | Escape Collective is different. |
| 0:11.0 | We deliver the content you crave without the distractions. |
| 0:13.6 | We're member supported and that means ad-free podcasts, independent and honest reporting and |
| 0:18.3 | and real conversations within a passionate community. It's a better way to experience |
| 0:22.3 | cycling media. |
| 0:23.0 | Join us at escape collective.com forward slash join. What changed over the last 10 years, we have looked at comfort as the main driver 10 years ago. |
| 0:47.0 | Comfort is directly related to maximum pressure. |
| 0:52.0 | Then we have tried to get rid of these maximum pressure points. |
| 0:55.0 | The learning curve, there are way more possibilities to optimize a position than just maximum pressure. |
| 1:04.4 | Think about a bike fit as a process |
| 1:07.0 | rather than one event that never comes back. |
| 1:12.4 | The over pedal spindle, as I was called, is that still relevant? |
| 1:15.0 | 12 o'clock is way more important than 3 o'clock when I want to evaluate cranklings. |
| 1:22.0 | And that range between 160 to 170 is is more and more |
| 1:27.0 | important for the future. |
| 1:39.0 | Are there any sort of acid tests you can do for whether or not the front end is in a good place or not? Welcome back to Performance Process. My name is Rona McLaughlin, Senior Tech Editor with Escape Collective, |
| 1:47.6 | and your host for this podcast. In this week's episode, I sat down for a conversation with sports scientist and CEO of |
| 1:54.8 | Gebaiowind's dad about modern bike fitting and navigating the pros and cons of current |
| 2:00.4 | bike fitting trends. We discuss stability and aerodynamics and how saddle position, |
| 2:06.1 | crank length, foot angle and the front end all feed into the optimal position and how that |
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