Tweakapalooza
It's time to blow the dust off of Trixie and show her the lovin' she deserves. I set her up on the trainer this morning so that we could get reacquainted with each other. I then spent the next three hours tweaking the fit. I have only had Trixie for less than a year, and we completed 3 sprints together last season, but I just never got around to getting a proper fit.
The first place I started was here on slowtwitch.com. This site had very useful information and diagrams, but it babbled on about geometry and angles and numbers and stuff, and, quite frankly, it made me want to poke out my eyeballs with a plastic spork.
A bit more research brought me to a youtube video advertising bike fit software. This proved to be the most helpful. I watched the video about a dozen times, and then started tweaking my bike and videotaping myself until I was set up in a similar fashion as the athlete in the video. Now, if only I could look like her (and swim like her, and bike like her, and run like her.)
Here's a picture before I started the tweaking process:
My leg is a bit too straight and and my arm needs to be closer to a 90 degree angle. My butt is also far too wide, but there's not much I can do about that.
Here's a post-tweak pic:
I lowered the seat and moved the saddle forward a bit. This helped with hip and leg angles, but I was still having trouble with the position of my arms. Finally, I moved my aerobars in about half an inch, and that seemed to do the trick. I did an easy 10 miles on the trainer focusing on form rather than speed, and I felt pretty good. I'll take her out in the real world tomorrow and see how we get along.
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