How one FEELS on a bike , is Entirely subjective ! Since the days of following bike racing as a kid .... I recall the lamenting over certain riders, Sean Kelley comes to mind. The bike fit "experts" said his seat was way too low, he was too scrunched ... etc. etc. Yet .... it worked for HIM !! That is what I mean. It's mind AND body working in unison , to which there simply is no wonderformula . What "looks" bad to one standard seen from without, Works from within.
But there is a large range of which one can ride and ride well. When one is "in tune" to themselves , there is no stopping them. I recall a TDF a few years ago when Jens Voigt crashed in a stage, he had no team car around, so he grabbed a KIDS bike from the crowd and kept going until the team car could find him . Now , this is short term of course .... but I bet if he had to finish a stage with it, he would still be just fine :) People are finicky about bike fit, because they are in a finicky state of mind . Examine their lives and you'll see it's not just bikes they are finicky about . Some of most fun rides I had as a teen was on a bike that was about 3-4 inches less long and shorter in bar height !! On Friday, April 12, 2013 9:31:48 AM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Garth <gart...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Yep ... bike fit and feel is entirely subjective. > > > Is that true? Then lower (or raise) your saddle by 3", move it forward (or > back) by 2", think some powerfully good thoughts, and ride: if it all is > "subjective" -- by which you mean "in your mind" -- then the bike should > feel and work as well as it did before. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
