Hey guys.
So I got a new MTB yesterday (I mentioned I was getting it before on the forum it's a specialized rockhopper comp 2012).
anyway so I'm riding it home yesterday (and also to work today) and the left pedal feels like is bent (i.e. my foot thinks it's not parallel to the ground).
When I came home yesterday, I was pretty beat up about my brand new bike having a bent pedal. I took out a couple of spirit levels and placed them on the pedals to check if they were parallel to each other. Long story short, when I have the bike perpendicular to the ground and the bubble on the spirit level of the right pedal (which feels perfectly fine) is smack bang in the middle, it's in the exact same position on the spirit level on the left side! To me this suggests that there is nothing wrong with the angle on the left pedal...but is this an accurate test?
One of the explanations that is being suggested so far is that the left pedal on my old bike (which is a cheap piece of junk, and never really had the pedals set up correctly) was not level in the first place; and I'm used to that now; whereby my left leg has a skewed view of what parallel to the ground feels like... it seems like a feasible explanation to be honest, but I would like to say that I have no problems whatsoever when I'm walking.
I haven't had the bike for long enough to test whether it's something to do with the trainers I'm wearing (I used the same trainers both times I felt the problem).
Do you guys have any ideas about what it could be?
Thank you
Vlad
So I got a new MTB yesterday (I mentioned I was getting it before on the forum it's a specialized rockhopper comp 2012).
anyway so I'm riding it home yesterday (and also to work today) and the left pedal feels like is bent (i.e. my foot thinks it's not parallel to the ground).
When I came home yesterday, I was pretty beat up about my brand new bike having a bent pedal. I took out a couple of spirit levels and placed them on the pedals to check if they were parallel to each other. Long story short, when I have the bike perpendicular to the ground and the bubble on the spirit level of the right pedal (which feels perfectly fine) is smack bang in the middle, it's in the exact same position on the spirit level on the left side! To me this suggests that there is nothing wrong with the angle on the left pedal...but is this an accurate test?
One of the explanations that is being suggested so far is that the left pedal on my old bike (which is a cheap piece of junk, and never really had the pedals set up correctly) was not level in the first place; and I'm used to that now; whereby my left leg has a skewed view of what parallel to the ground feels like... it seems like a feasible explanation to be honest, but I would like to say that I have no problems whatsoever when I'm walking.
I haven't had the bike for long enough to test whether it's something to do with the trainers I'm wearing (I used the same trainers both times I felt the problem).
Do you guys have any ideas about what it could be?
Thank you
Vlad