I’ve been riding a fair amount for over a year now but had never really tried to adjust the bike at all – the positioning of the seat or handlebars, etc.  I don’t know why but it never seemed like it would be terribly useful.  Further, I cut my biking teeth in a spin class and spin bikes are all about adjustments.  It doesn’t make any sense!  Maybe I’m a dope.

In any event, I’ve been using the trainer everyday and my knees were really starting to hurt!  This is at least somewhat strange because street riding only ever made my thighs and rear-end sore.  Both because (no doubt) I’m too fat!  I saw over on Fatty’s blog a mention that a seat adjustment had helped someone and my dad made an adjustment to his seat that helped his knees so I decided to give it a whirl.

The results have been tremendous and immediate.  I moved the seat back 1.5 inches and my knees no longer hurt.  I think the move put the knee over the ankle when the most power is applied.  The other change I have fiddled with on the road bike is to try moving the seat post up and down a bit.  That’s a dicier adjustment as you can’t go too low or it robs power from your stroke but the lower the seat, the less stress there is on my back.