A Bike Fit is essential for Endurance Cycling
More people are enjoying long-distance cycling, both as a method of exercise and fitness and also for competition and charity rides. Whether you want to get better for personal reasons or to perform better in those races, one of the big factors that will affect that performance is whether you properly set up your bike in the form of an online bike fit, or one in person. When your distance takes you 5 hours or perhaps even more, you need to consider comfort for that whole time, not just the first hour or two. It is often when a rider starts experiencing discomfort that they then are outperformed by athletes who have prepared better. While part of this is good training your equipment set-up is also a big factor. Handlebar height, width and stem length A general guide for road bike fitting when you are looking at the positioning of your handlebar is that is a position is comfortable for just two hours or so, raising them between five to ten millimetres will make them more comfortab...