Fitting Body Measurements are Important Before Buying a Bike

Carry out whole body Fitting body measurements to understand your physical fitness, which will help you choose the right frame and other matching bicycle combinations.

What are the Items of Fitting Body Measurement?
Before buying a bicycle, you should first understand and discuss your usual riding style, injury history, etc., and then proceed to analyze your physical fitness. The purpose is to know whether any part of the bicycle is restricted in movement. It may be past injury history or innate physical traits.

• Use the foot arch measuring board to know the height of the foot arch, assist the fitter to determine the position of the heel, whether the heel is collapsed, and whether it will affect the pedaling.
• Understand the relative positions of the hips, knees, and feet of the body by visual inspection. And use professional procedures to determine whether the left and right sides of the pelvis are symmetrical. If there is a slight skewness, it may cause uneven pedaling of the two feet.
• Relax your body and keep your head up high to confirm the position of your shoulders and cheekbones.
• Through the stretched forward bend, you can understand the flexibility of the rider, and then the body slowly returns to the original position to see if the spine is neutral, and there will be no unnatural rotation in the process.
• Look straight ahead, and raise your thumbs over your shoulders naturally. During the process, observe whether your hands and shoulders have abnormal movements or injuries.
• Lie on the bed with your hands on your stomach and your feet relaxed, and measure the range of motion of your hip joints.
• Know the range of motion of the ankle joint, bend the knees, raise the buttocks to the top, relax the pelvis and pull back quickly, and know whether the rider has long or short legs.
• The feet are relaxed and fall naturally. The degree of relaxation of the quadriceps on the front of the leg is tested. The degree of muscle relaxation is related to the pedaling efficiency.
• With your hands on your hips, squat down with one foot independently, and learn which parts of your feet, knees, and hips are relatively unstable when pedaling. This ability is related to core muscle strength and neural control.

Advantages and Purposes of Fitting:
For the average recreational rider, the most practical effect is to reduce sports injuries and improve the comfort of riding. For many holiday riders, it is also common to ride the bike all morning on weekends. At this time, riding comfortably is the most comfortable. The most important thing is to get off the car after 5 to 6 hours, and the whole body still feels relaxed without any soreness, which will surely increase the attractiveness of this endurance sport.

For advanced riders who want to improve their cycling performance, Fitting can also help to a certain extent, achieving a balance between physical comfort and performance. The reason for this kind of help is that Fitting measurement is based on ergonomics and exercise physiology, and starts from physical ability, which is the brainchild of data engineering. However, since Fitting is a professional technology with many details, it takes a long time. It is recommended that friends who want to Fit in should make an appointment with the car shop first. Generally speaking, it takes about 4 hours, including interviews, physical examinations, etc. Measurements, bike settings, and more.

Fitting's body measurement project is to fully understand the rider's physical condition during the process. If there is any abnormal movement of the body part, it can be improved by physical therapy. However, the value of the fitting test result is not permanent, because the relevant data will change with the physical fitness of the knight. After understanding the basic physical fitness, the next step is to match the frame to find the right settings.

Everyone's height, hand length, and foot length are very different, and road cycling is a sport that is closely related to the body. The size of the frame and the geometry of each part are different because such a close connection requires more detailed anthropometric measurements allowing you. Choose a bicycle that fits you and is comfortable so that you can create a great cycling experience and avoid the risk of other sports injuries.

​Reference: cyclingtime