Bike Fit Equipment and Tools
Adjust your Exit bike
It's a bit of inside baseball, only for hard core bike fitters and those who follow the process as a hobby. The Exit fit bike - the standard for tri bike fitting pros - undergoes a protocol change.
Year of the Contact Point
There should be a practicality to things that trumps even what the designer or seller intended for his product. Filling the gap between products-as-intended and products-as-needed is the tinkerer's raison d'ętre.
Retul or go(niometer) it alone?
For fitters and fittees alike, here's a question you might be asking: What premium does a Retul deliver to the fit process over other measuring devices?
Systems, tools and apple pie
Judging by recent posts on the Slowtwitch Reader Forum, confusion reigns over bike fit systems, the difference between a system and a tool, and how it all relates to apple pie.
A bike fitting first: Angular head pin on an X/Y fit bike
Exit Cycling finished work on an angular head pin for its X/Y adjustable fit bike. This makes Exit Cycling, the fit bike maker owned by popular custom bike builder Ves Mandaric, a one-of-a-kind machine.
Fudging for negative reach
Tri bike fitters using the F.I.S.T. system often find they need a size bigger bike for their customers versus what the fit session indicates. Here's why.
