M
maxo
Guest
I solved the problem but I'm curious if anybody else ever experienced this:
I was doing some serious hillclimbing the other day here in middle
Tennessee on my old road bike which is set up the same way I've been doing
since the eighties: legs straight when heels touch pedals, plumb line from
bottom of patella goes through pedal axel. At any rate, I got tired on the
umpteenth hill of the day and slid forward on my Brooks and found that I
could spin just brilliantly in that position. When I got home I adjusted
my saddle perhaps an inch forward and raised it a smidge to compensate.
The next ride, on fairly level ground, my right inside knee just crapped
out with severe horrible pain--I limped home the last couple miles on
pretty much lefty leg power. So I took a couple days off, and thought I
might have to give up riding, or see a specialist--which I can't afford at
the moment. Of course the riding bug got hold of me, and I returned the
seat back to it's usual position and did a fierce 40 miler today with
absolutely no pain.
I'm just bewildered that such a small change in position would cause such
a condition--anybody else experienced anything similar?
I was doing some serious hillclimbing the other day here in middle
Tennessee on my old road bike which is set up the same way I've been doing
since the eighties: legs straight when heels touch pedals, plumb line from
bottom of patella goes through pedal axel. At any rate, I got tired on the
umpteenth hill of the day and slid forward on my Brooks and found that I
could spin just brilliantly in that position. When I got home I adjusted
my saddle perhaps an inch forward and raised it a smidge to compensate.
The next ride, on fairly level ground, my right inside knee just crapped
out with severe horrible pain--I limped home the last couple miles on
pretty much lefty leg power. So I took a couple days off, and thought I
might have to give up riding, or see a specialist--which I can't afford at
the moment. Of course the riding bug got hold of me, and I returned the
seat back to it's usual position and did a fierce 40 miler today with
absolutely no pain.
I'm just bewildered that such a small change in position would cause such
a condition--anybody else experienced anything similar?