Aborted ride

[bill_schubert]

After getting my road bike tuned I was ready to go for a ride.  Unfortunately the people that tuned up my bike did the cardinal sin of working on someone's bike.  They didn't return my saddle height to the same as it was before.  I'm sure they will say they did and it is my fault for not marking it before I gave it to them especially since I thought about it.  But I figured a pro shop would routinely tape the tube where it enters the frame.  I fixed computers, not bikes and know to do that.  

So my seat was too low.  For a cycle person this is critical.  For an old person who already had one knee replaced this is very critical.  When I got the bike I paid someone who had been trained to adjust it for me and he spent some time getting it just so.  To low or high and it screwed up your knees.  Kind of important.

Rather than riding today I spent the time adjusting the saddle and testing with a ride.  Readjusting and testing again.  It will take me a couple of rides to be sure but I'm closer than it was and I'm ready to ride now.

Tomorrow.

Meanwhile here is the picture of my off road bike now that it has hybrid tires.

29 inch mountain bike converted to hybrid

It is a great bike.  Nearly indestructible.  You can see the front shocks.  My wrists love them.  And you can see how big the tires are.  Makes for a really nice ride.  It is heavier and slower than my street bike but has way more gears so it is excellent for short steep climbs and crusing.

Comments

[anais-pf.livejournal.com]

And of course when you got it perfect, you marked it with tape or paint.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

What a wonderfully mom thing to say.

Yeah, I rode for over an hour today and my knees are fine so I think I've got it and will tape it (and measure/record to be sure). Wish I'd measured before. I would loved to have called them out on it while I was there. Had them do a free re-fitting.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

It's enraging having to put things back, but stratospherically enraging when you actually paid someone to get it right!

[maju01.livejournal.com]

I always wince when I see someone riding a bike with the seat too low. When I was a young teenager my father taught me about getting the seat high enough.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is a knee killer and no power at all.