What to prepare before bike fit session:
1. Do not cycle or workout heavily 1-2 days before bike fitting. Muscles need to be fresh.
2. Bring bicycle, cycling shoes and pants, towel, gloves and water bottle.
4. Sense of humour and calm nerves are a must, need patience to get the perfect fit.
5. Bring along your favourite music, coffee mug, etc, you get the idea, right?
6. Try not to schedule on a busy day as the session might take longer than it should.
Step-by-step process of LRC Bike Fitting session:
What happens after LRC Bike Fitting session?
- Review on customer's current dissatisfaction with their riding experience.
- Record current bicycle dimensions.
- Measure foot-tilt-angle (FTA), leg-length-difference (LLD), shoulder widths, etc.
- Install sloping wedges and/or shims to shoes to compensate FTA and LLD.
- Customer warms up on trainer.
- Power output observed using power wattage meter linked to trainer.
- Explanation on proper road biking posture and pedal stroke method.
- Riding habits and posture observed and corrected if improper.
- Adjustments made to main contact points.
- Knee alignment measured with laser guides.
- Customer continues to ride and communicate on difficulties, discomfort, numbness, pain, etc.
- Further adjustments made until customer is satisfied with improvement.
- Bike dimensions are recorded and compared to initial figures.
- Recommendations are recorded and informed to customer.
What happens after LRC Bike Fitting session?
- Customer to cycle as per regular basis.
- Feedback to LRC-Chuah on any immediate pain/discomfort.
- 1-4 rides: Body taking in new muscle memory. Improvement might not be obvious.
- 5-8 rides: New (better) muscle memory set in and rider will gain improvement.
- Free follow-up update fitting within 3-months when rider improved and feels the current fit is outdated, e.g. cockpit feels cramp, saddle feels low.
To understand more about bike fitting, please visit:
www.littlerockcycles.com
www.Facebook.com/LittleRockBikeFit
Contact: 012-232-4868 Chuah (Watsapp/SMS or call) .
Google/Waze Location: Jalan Hujan Bukit
Located in: Taman OUG, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (nearby Bukit Jalil & Sri Petaling)
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