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I don't think you need a fit. Not at this stage, anyway. If you have one, you're likely to be asked lots of questions like "Is this stem length more comfortable than the one two minutes ago?" and because it's all so new to you you'll probably reply "Uh, I dunno, really." (You'll know if a position is really wrong, but you can avoid what's really wrong without needing to try it during a bike fit.)I need a fit. Don't have money for a fit. My neck hurts but my legs feel so much better then my old bike. I think I might need to rotate the bars up a little to make the levers a tad easier to reach when riding the hoods. But I also have no idea what I'm dooooing.
It's a 54 which is rated for up to 180cm.What is the frame size?
Yes, but e. g. if you have long limbs, it may be too small. I'm about the same size as you 178 cm) and 54 cm is too small.It's a 54 which is rated for up to 180cm.
If you use a bike, you'll get scratches and rub just from plain use. That's purely cosmetic. Japanese seem pretty averse to buying used stuff. We blew our Covid stimulus money on a new washing machine: my wife insisted on a new one.As for the bike condition, I was genuinely impressed. It has been dropped, some scratches on the crank and a few wear and tear spots on the body.
Exactly! It shifted like a dream and just felt nice to ride when I was testing it. I guess it's like the camera secondhand market here - people expect brand new quality otherwise the price goes down. Good for me as the secondhand market is Aus you're lucky if you're getting anything in decent quality for a nice price haha.If you use a bike, you'll get scratches and rub just from plain use. That's purely cosmetic.
Typically a size 10 US. Sometimes depending on the shoe though I can be a 9.5 US.what size shoes do you take?
That's what I get for using my phone to post, damn iPhone.Yes, you must buy special shoes and special pedals and ensure that the former are clipped in to the latter!
Except that no you needn't.
I'm never clipped in. Tried it, didn't like it. I'm slow, but I attribute this to age, weight, atrophied muscles and laziness, not to pedals, shoes or clipped-in-ness. However, if it means anything I have been known to go up and down hills and to exceed 200 km with running shoes and MKS Sylvan something-something tourist pedals.
On bike fitting: my bike-fitter was very patient. But he started by asking me what my regular cadence was. I said, honestly, that I had no idea. So he said OK, ride this here bike on rollers as if you were riding your own bike out on the road. I said, honestly, that it was such a different experience that I really didn't know if I was rotating my legs slower or faster than I would if I were riding my actual bike. Et cetera. But maybe I was/am exceptionally stupid.
Yes, maybe it's my exceptional stupidity that also explains why I can't take any of these formulae or "this-should-be-directly-over-that" stuff seriously.
Oh, and -- cough -- people, you're trying to brake, not to "break" anything.