It doesn't matter whether you're a serious racer, club cyclist or newbie — a professional bike fit can transform the way you ride.
My hands-on, personalised fit system ensures you achieve the perfect fit and feel — reducing the risk of overuse injuries, increasing comfort and maximising cycling performance. For beginners, it means you adapt and enjoy cycling much quicker. For professional and competitive cyclists, it means switching up a gear and taking your riding to the next level.
Initial assessment
First up, we'll have a proper conversation about you — your lifestyle, your cycling, any injuries or discomfort you feel (on and off the bike) and your cycling goals.
We'll also carry out body measurements and other assessments to understand your body's framework: leg lengths, hip mobility, shoulder posture, flexibility in key chains. This is not a stopwatch-and-protractor exercise — it's how we build the mental model of how your body wants to move on a bike.
Shoe & cleat position
The fit starts by concentrating on your foot–pedal interface and the multiple ways the cleat aligns to the sole of your cycling shoe. Cleat fore-aft, lateral position, rotation, float, wedging under the ball of the foot — each of these affects power transfer, knee tracking and long-distance comfort.
Clipless pedal systems are incredibly precise: get the cleat wrong by a few millimetres and you'll feel it in your knee by mile twenty. Get it right and it disappears. That's the goal.
Saddle height & position
Saddle height drives everything further up the chain. Too high and you rock across the saddle; too low and you leak watts with every pedal stroke. I use a combination of dynamic observation (watching you pedal) and static measurement to find the sweet spot.
Saddle fore-aft matters just as much — it dictates where your weight sits over the bottom bracket and how your hips engage through the pedal stroke. Sometimes the solution is a different saddle entirely — shape, width, padding.
Handlebar position & cockpit
Reach, drop, width, angle of the hoods. For most non-elite riders, the cockpit is where the biggest comfort wins are hiding — small changes that let your shoulders unload, your lower back relax, and your breathing open up over long rides.
Test, refine, test again
At every stage you ride. I watch, we adjust, you ride again. A proper fit is iterative — the changes at the saddle feed back into the cockpit, the cleat tweaks feed back into the saddle. It's why a fit takes 2–3 hours rather than 30 minutes.
What you leave with
- Fully dialled-in position, tested under load
- Written documentation of every measurement so you can replicate it
- Clear explanation of why each change was made — not a black box
- Any follow-up recommendations (kit changes, flexibility work, technique cues)
- A 30-day no-fuss tweak if anything shifts once you've put the miles in
The shorter stem was definitely the right choice. Now I can prepare for the World Championships pain-free. Thanks, Phil. — Anna Henderson, Olympic Silver Medallist
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