Most beginners don’t know how to choose their own bicycle. When purchasing yourself unfitted it usually reflect later as pain, mostly in the back and knees.

To avoid this unpleasant experience here a few tips for adjusting yourself the perfect bike.

The bike height affects our balance and control, if it’s not fit it makes the riding harder then it supposed to.

Stand over the bike, the gap between the bike frame and your crotch should be around 6-7 centimeters.

Different bikes require different body position, but not all of them are healthy.

Wrong body position damage the muscles and bones by dividing the pressure activated on them unequally. Overpressure can cause a bone fracture, muscle and tendon injuries. Our body comes in touch with three parts of the bike during the ride: the seat, the pedals, and the steer. The gaps between those parts can determine in which position we will ride the bike, and so they need to be checked before purchasing a bike.

A nice method to find the right gap between the bike seat and steer is to measure you upper body (from the bottom of your belly to your neck), measure the size of your arm including shoulder, add the numbers and divide by two. That should be approximately the gap you need.

To find the gap between your seat and pedals, seat on the bike and put your feet on the pedals, adjust the seat height in a way that you could stretch on leg while the pedal is down and you step on it with your ankle, and when the pedals are parallel to the ground the knee belongs to the leg that leans forward should be right above the pedals rotation axis. When done take the bike for a test drive and perform small fixes.

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