Saturday, August 13, 2011

Mid-Foot Cleat Positioning

@FirstHippy asks, "Mid-foot cleat positioning. It would be a massive change, beneficial to my long TT goals but detrimental to climbing/sprinting?" #bikefit



Yes. The best compromise would be a Rotor/Q ring to compensate, but you can’t have your cake and eat it too.  You need a pair of shoes set up exclusively for the TT rig , and midcleat may require a greater amount of change to the fit since you will sit lower on the bike. Your road set can have a placement closer to your 5th metarsal or even in front of it and the stance may be slightly wider since the sitbones would be wider. Your range of motion between the bikes will be similar, but you will be employing more leverage from the calf on the road shoe which is the only class 1 lever on the body. My suggestion  about cleat placement has to do with how much fluxuation/accelerations your riding will have compounded by time/duration.  Think of it as moving the needle back and forth between steady state and explosive.  Hope this helps.  #bikefit

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