On a more helpful note, the only thing I can think of is that you look a little tucked up at the front. A touch more reach to bring your elbows forward and get a 90 degree angle between forearms, upper arms and torso might be a bit more comfortable and take some pressure off your muscles.
To get closer to Ganna’s position, you’d need either a very long stem or a longer bike frame. Your position around the saddle/BB looks ok from the single image and probably wouldn’t want to change that.
I’ve been thinking about my position after reading this. Reckon I may be too scrunched up in a similar vein as well. I’ve also been getting sore knees in the big power, tt pos intervals. I read somewhere that raising the saddle height may help that. So I’ve nudged it up a cm or two.
Will test it tmw. Once I’m comfortable, I’ll submit evidence to the jury.
Further to the above, I nudged the saddle height up again today by another cm, and that felt quite natural. So think I’ll keep that.
Might try dropping the handlebars down another spacer to drop that whole front end a bit more and see how that affects things. Will give it a test ride before filming, but feels like I’m slowly getting there. On feel at least. It may look terrible on video and require lots of changes. Guess I should submit sooner rather than later.
OK. Really quick video. I’ll do a proper one, as mentioned above, in a few weeks.
I just took the last 2 spacers out from the stem, and a quick sit on top feels alright. I’ll obvs have to test for power fluctuations etc.
Back position seems to be OK. Anything major that I’m missing or you can glean from this? Don’t worry if it’s too rustic to comment. I’ll do a front and side proper job (full Cornish accent mandatory) soon.
Ta.
And yes, I know how bad the glitchy pedaling is on the turbo. It does smooth out a bit once it’s warmed up a tad.
If you’re talking about 1cm differences in saddle height, wouldn’t you be better off trying with bike shoes rather than running shoes which will have a cm of sole?
Yeah I’ve been trying to do that in my sessions, but it felt horrible when the bars were higher. I’ll give it a go in the week again and see if it’s any better. Deffo will need to strengthen the neck and shoulders to do that though.
I’m no expert but at the very bottom of pedal stroke your legs still look quite bent, wonder is saddle still a smidgen low?? Please don’t take my word for it though because I’m probably wrong.
VERY nice bike
You definitely need a smart trainer in your life though