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hey all, any experience with this..
Did a reliability trial the other week, 60 odd miles (race pace near enough!), on my summer bike, which is set up that same way it always has been. The following day my knee and for the remaining week my knee was pretty stiff and sore to the touch.
It's a bit better now, and doesn't seem to cause issue now I'm back on the winter bike (Did the local chain gang and all was OK), anyway, its still sore to the touch (sort of)
any idea on possible cause/treatment/comment? over extension of the leg?
cheers
Different shoes, slightly different saddle height, bike geometry different?
Same shoes (different pedals..) think saddle height is identical give or take a mm. Certainly the geometry is different, but the bike has been left exactly as I the last time I'd used it, and I'd use the winter bike on wet days so would usually be swapping between the two of them on a regular basis.
PErhaps it was just the pace and distance then?
slight changes in saddle height, i've found, can result in incredibly quick and painful over-extension-related pain issues...
Check saddle fore and aft relative to the bottom bracket. A 1 degree difference in seat tube angle is a centimetre in fore and aft for my frames. My commuting bike was giving me knee pain for precisely this reason, even though the relative position of the identical saddles was the same (by saddle rail clamping). When I checked relative to BB, I was too far back by 2 cm. Moving the saddle forward removed all pain.
Fore and aft saddle position has more effect than height for me.
cheers for the replies, pace and distance is unlikely as it was no harder than the chain gang 😉
@TiRed - cheers for that, will give all the measurements a thorough checkout, see how it checks out.