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I ride about 4 times a week, 3 x 30km rides and one 80km ride.
I am getting sore knees, but not on my knee, jusy above them. Any ideas as too why. Seat height maybe.? Thanks |
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"robbie" wrote in message
I ride about 4 times a week, 3 x 30km rides and one 80km ride. I am getting sore knees, but not on my knee, jusy above them. Any ideas as too why. Seat height maybe.? Soreness just above the knee usually indicates your saddle is too low. That means at the top of the stroke knee flexion is increased and so your quads have to work harder to force that leg down. What you're feeling is the result of that extra strain. Raising the saddle to its proper height will decrease knee flexion at the top of the stroke so your leg will be relatively straighter, your quads won't have to work quite so hard and you won't get sore in that area. -- A: Top-posters. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet? |
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I get the same problem...the saddle height makes sense...I was ripped off and sold a small frame when at 6'2 I should have had a large frame. How did I get ripped off you might ask? Because I was told the bike in large size was in stock and if I came back the following day it would be assembled. (The demo model was small so I had already pointed this out). Some time later I noticed the sticker with the size label had been peeled off...the remnants were still there. Obviously that bike shop had only the small ones in stock and couldn't be bothered ordering the correct size for me. I've got the saddle up as far as it will safely go, but obviously not as far as it needs to go. Not something that made itself evident when I first had the bike as it was a million times better than the no name $100 rigid that it replaced, but as my riding skills and distances increased the sore knee factor would come in sometimes as early as 30km into the ride. Painful enough to have to stop riding Anyway, I wore out all the running gear and the rear shock after 2000kms so time to get a better bike. DRS Wrote: "robbie" wrote in message I ride about 4 times a week, 3 x 30km rides and one 80km ride. I am getting sore knees, but not on my knee, jusy above them. Any ideas as too why. Seat height maybe.? Soreness just above the knee usually indicates your saddle is too low. That means at the top of the stroke knee flexion is increased and so your quads have to work harder to force that leg down. What you're feeling is the result of that extra strain. Raising the saddle to its proper height will decrease knee flexion at the top of the stroke so your leg will be relatively straighter, your quads won't have to work quite so hard and you won't get sore in that area. -- A: Top-posters. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet? -- mds2076 |
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mds2076 Wrote: I get the same problem...the saddle height makes sense...I was ripped off and sold a small frame when at 6'2 I should have had a large frame. How did I get ripped off you might ask? Because I was told the bike in large size was in stock and if I came back the following day it would be assembled. (The demo model was small so I had already pointed this out). Some time later I noticed the sticker with the size label had been peeled off...the remnants were still there. Obviously that bike shop had only the small ones in stock and couldn't be bothered ordering the correct size for me. For something that dodgy.. you should be naming the shop! Actually, how come you didn't take the bike back and rip through them? Great way to create return customers and encourage cycling.. the dicks! hippy -- hippy |
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Of course in retrospect I should have...but was way too late by the time I'd worked out what had happened. This was when I first got into mtb and was somewhat naiive about everything. Besides, the guy who owned the shop adjusted the saddle 'correctly' for me so I assumed all was well. I thought the knee pain must be something to do with me once it started to show up...not fit enough etc... Reading articles about bike fit started to get me suspicious though and when I bought my next bike (from elsewhere of course), I insisted on the large size,(making sure that's what I actually got) and adjusted the fit myself. Funnily enough the knee pain factor never occured riding this bike. Well, I won't name the bike shop exactly, but it's in Blaxland. Those of you who live in the Blue Mts will know it . The guy who runs it seems more interested in importing Principia road bikes than anything else he sells; bad move going to a road bike shop to buy a mtb I guess. For all the newbies about to buy a bike, the moral of the story is to learn about bike fit before you even walk into a bike shop and get duped by the smiling salesman assuring you the bike fits. Don't buy a mtb from a shop that specialises in road bikes only. hippy Wrote: For something that dodgy.. you should be naming the shop! Actually, how come you didn't take the bike back and rip through them? Great way to create return customers and encourage cycling.. the dicks! hippy -- mds2076 |
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mds2076 Well, I won't name the bike shop exactly, but it's in Blaxland. Those of you who live in the Blue Mts will know it . The guy who runs it seems more interested in importing Principia road bikes than anything else he sells; bad move going to a road bike shop to buy a mtb I guess. That's funny because I read somewhere that Principia had gone bust.. Can anyone confirm this? Here's one example (pity all the rest is foreign): http://www.riis-cycling.com/forum/to...p?TOPIC_ID=468 hippy -- hippy |
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mds2076 wrote in
: I get the same problem...the saddle height makes sense...I was ripped off and sold a small frame when at 6'2 I should have had a large frame. I did something similar, but on purpose. I got a Cannondale F600 with a medium frame rather than large (I'm also 6'2") with a very long seat post. This gives me more freedom of movement for throwing the bike around from side to side, something which is very handy on the more technical, slow speed rides I like doing. Graeme |
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I'm getting plenty of soreness in my left ankle... right in the join area (just under the ball on my ankle)... it really starts to hurt at around 80km mark of a ride, and on the weekend, i had to stop riding. any ideas on remedies? -- kyra |
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kyra wrote:
I'm getting plenty of soreness in my left ankle... right in the join area (just under the ball on my ankle)... it really starts to hurt at around 80km mark of a ride, and on the weekend, i had to stop riding. any ideas on remedies? -- kyra Set up an indoor trainer in front of a mirror and check out your leg action from the front. If you knee is moving in and out excessively or your foot is flicking side to side a lot, that could cause the problem. It could be seat height or fore/aft position. Or it could be because the natural movement of your foot isn't centred with the cleat position, so you get some "pressing" that you work to resist while you ride, in which case you'd just need to fix that. (I'm assuming you're using red look-style cleats here, which is bad of me, but I can't help you otherwise) Tam |
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