I do and it’s driving me bonkers, particularly on the road bike! Am I a freak, or do others have this ‘issue’?

Nowhere near. Funny thing is, I was looking at this recently trying to assess how much carrying capacity one of these frame bags could have. FWIW, my thighs do tend to brush against the top tube….

Sometimes……

Do you really mean the downtube?

I do and it’s driving me bonkers, particularly on the road bike! Am I a freak, or do others have this ‘issue’?

possibly knee mistracking from supination. footbeds wedges/cleat wedges will sort that (worked for me)

LMTTM, oddly enough, my calves are somewhat like that, years of mashing big gears inappropriately has made ’em rather wide…

Do you really mean the downtube?

Yep, the tube what runs down from the headtube to the bottom bracket, this is the downtube yes?

my thighs do tend to brush against the top tube…

My thighs don’t, but my knees do (I try to keep ’em in nice and tight, is this the ‘right’ thing?)

You need a different road bike is all.

Might I recommend …

no but they do hit the seat stays.

I’m mostly worrying about the tops of my thighs brushing my stomach these days….. 😳

Do you ride with your knees pointing in the way?

no but they do hit the seat stays.

Same actually…

Do you ride with your knees pointing in the way?

Not sure what you’re asking here SBZ?

Do you ride with your knees pointing in the way?

The V Locus?

Downtube – no

Front mech – yes, and it leave an oily mark on my leg, which annoys me and will probably give me cancer or something at some point, all those hydrocarbons sitting there.

Oily mark? The technical term is “bletch” (if you’re from the North Midlands)

sorry, my bad… I meant the seat tube (just been out for a ride and realised my folly… 😳 ). But still, hitting the seat stays and seat tube is a bit of a pain as well, surely not ‘normal’?

Do you have cankles?

not my ankles hitting, it’s the middle of my calves, where they’re the widest… maybe I need to put my saddle up a bit or something?

my calves do brush the end of the “seat stays” on my top fuel and i used to catch my heels on the v brakes on hard tails.

that’s certainly not a calf aracer… just how much did you have to google to find that image?? 😆

+1 Mr smith.

Mrs Kilo has something similar, at a bikefit session it was pointed out that one leg was slightly longer than the other leading to a slight twist and causing this. They placed shims under the road cleat and this has cured the problem (similar to these http://www.bike-science.com/index.php?p=product&products_id=1254&cid=4. If you go down this route you may need a longer cleat bolt.

lay off the pies

Psychle does have proper massive calves. I can vouch for this, having seen them pounding out the miles to Brighton last week. 😀

As for ‘lay off the pies’; it’s mostly muscle. He’s a very powerful rider. Climbs hills on a singlespeed without getting out of the saddle. 😯

I’m sat here trying to fathom out how they get so close? I guess you’re still comfortable though.
If you look at some of the massively built trackies, they’re still many inches away.
Even if I tuck my kness in, it’ll cause my heels to point out slightly so even then my legs go no closer.
Very odd.
Strangely we have a rider that pushes 48×16 up the biggest hills here (Bison Pass) yet that’s made his legs tiny, so much so that his lycra shorts are baggy now like our Bradley.
I want to ride behind you now just to see.