It could just be that your body was ahead of medical science, and it's your newly discovered ALL tendon in your knee. Yes, you read that right, doctors are THAT good at anatomy they don't know all the parts yet. Sardonic grin. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/11/06/doctors-discover-a-new-knee-ligament/
With abandon, Patrick On Tuesday, November 5, 2013 7:01:10 PM UTC-7, Jim Bronson wrote: > > OK, so I have discovered that I really prefer a wider stance width, > q-factor, and so forth. I used to drink the kool-aid on the narrow > q-factor but now I realize it doesn't work with my body. > > I have some 1/2" BMX pedals with 9/16ths adaptors and that seems to spread > things out pretty nicely to my liking on my Paul Taylor custom. On that > bike it's using Ultegra cranks, so I'm not sure what the starting Q factor > is there but I suppose I could rotate the left crank around and measure. > But anyway I was recently able to ride a 200K brevet with the least amount > of knee pain that I have had in probably 5 years. > > However, my Paul Taylor is entirely unsuitable overall for anything beyond > 200K brevets, and is really questionable even for those. It's pretty > stretched out, which is great for going faster but not so great for > comfort. My upper body ached at the end of the 200K. > > The bike I want to use for this riding is my Rivendell. On a recent ride > on the Riv with flat pedals my feet were wanting to be halfway off the > outside of the pedals. I have thought of a new crankset to fix these > issues. However, I decided I would like to try to salvage my relationship > with my TA Carmina triple. Other than being too narrow, I like the > 50-38-26 rings that it has and it looks reasonably nice to boot. Plus, > they're already on the bike and I'd rather not go through the trial and > error involved with trying a new crankset. Not to mention, the Carmina was > expensive and the money was already sunk years ago. > > I found something online called Kneesavers which is a spacer that goes > between the crank and the pedal and comes in a 20mm, 25mm and 30mm width. > But they are $45.00. That seems a little unreasonable for a piece of > stainless steel that doesn't even contain any bearings. > > Any other options out there to add a couple/few centimeters of width to > one's pedal stance? > > -Jim > > -- > Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
