How To Size A Road Bike

A road bike is a bike which is ridden by sort of the guys like in the Tour de France. So, you know the kind of idea. They've got the diamond frame which has been around for many, many years now.

Years, in fact, Victorian times, so you know what it looks like and generally speaking, they're looking for speed but they're looking for more comfort. You're going to have a more upright position, something like that with your elbows relaxed. So, you've got nice control over the bicycle and it's comfortable.

You're operating at an efficient position where your back is sort of at around about 45 degrees where you're using the muscles in your back. You'll find you'll adopt a position pretty quickly after you get a bike and you'll tweak the position. You'll put the saddle up.

Put the saddle down. Put the saddle forward, backward. The stem of the bike might be increased in length or shortened.

Whatever you want to do and you'll find a position that suits you. Obviously, on a road bike, you've got three positions on the bars. You've got the top, you've got the side and also, you've got the drops.

Generally speaking, the height is measured from the bottom bracket to the top of the saddle. So if you jump on a bike and you get that dimension where, in this case here, it's about 770 millimeters, which is about 30 and a 1/2 inches. When you get on the bike, the idea is to have a leg in which the knee is just slightly bent when the pedal is at the bottom of its stroke. .