I recently received a sale catalog from a local bike chain. I found it interesting that nearly every bike description in there mentioned comfort... from $300 upright hybrids to $10,000 low-bar'd road bikes. They even have some bikes supposedly built for the BORAF that don't sacrifice comfort.
I'm pretty sure no amount of adjustment on a lot of the bikes in that catalog could come close to the comfort of my Homer. I think it's hard to go wrong as long as you start with a frame that suits your style and is appropriately sized. I ride my kid's bikes (16-inch wheeled BMX bikes) from time to time... rideable but definitely not comfortable. As an experiment... let's all bring our most ill or properly fitting bikes to the PSU Farmer's Market in downtown Portland and ride with Manny this Saturday. We can try each other's bikes and see what works and what doesn't. Maybe it'll be an eye opener for some of us. --Smitty On Friday, April 12, 2013 4:55:23 AM UTC-7, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 19:59 -0700, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote: > > Any fit based on measurements, whether with a tape measure or a body > scanner with laser beams, is merely a starting point, since no two humans > are alike. > > > > But the market for this kind of service is the elite cyclist. By > "elite", I mean "spends a fortune". If one of these dudes is buying a $15k > bike, and wears $2k worth of clothing to ride it, then why not have a > status symbol fit? > > > > It's not about the status. Shops that provide these services are > telling people they'll get as much as a 10% improvement in their power > and speed as a result of better fit. Not sure about that number, but in > the case of one of my riding pals who recently got such a fit as part of > getting a new custom Seven, she easily improved at least that much. > > > > -- 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.
