1) Comprehensive Interview:

A Periodic Assessment, like every Fit Werx fit, starts with a detailed interview that covers everything from your cycling goals and riding habits, to injuries as well as existing problems you are experiencing. The more we know about you, your riding and goals, the better we can help.

2) Limb and Skeletal Measurements:

We review the results of the last body measurements we took and how they relate to you now.

3) Alignment, Range of Motion and Stability/Balance Analysis:

Comparing to your initial fitting, we reassess your range of motion/mobility and balance/stability to build a position around your individual capabilities and needs.  Assessment results are used on the size cycle to help you better understand your role in changing postural and technique habits that may be contributing to issues and to determine whether additional fit based accommodations may make sense.  Additional information on this Bike Fit 2.0 approach can be found here.

4) Cleat Alignment & Custom Cycling Footbed Assessment:

Strong buildings are built on strong foundations. A good fit is not any different. We reassess your foot and leg alignment in order to make sure your feet, legs, pedals and shoes are in the most aligned and powerful position possible.

5) Bike Fit 2.0 Size Cycle Session

Proper Position + Proper Muscular Awareness/Balance = Greater Comfort & Greater Speed.

It is crucial to recognize that the fitter and the process being used are far more important than whether a piece of software or “type” of fit (Retul, FIST, etc.) is used.  Bike fit in not defined by the tools, but rather by how those tools are used and the information they provide.  It is the carpenter, far more than the hammer that matters.

A Fit Werx fitting is defined by our Bike Fit 2.0 process.  We pair cycling science based positioning fundamentals to the rider as an individual with kinetic connections related to the rider’s muscular balance, posture and technique. 

This being stated, Fit Werx offers one of the most complete fitting “tool kits” anywhere. When used properly by a qualified and experienced fitter, an adjustable Size Cycle combined with modern motion capture video analysis technology provide exceptional information.

Motion analysis technology, from companies like Dartfish Motion Capture, Retul and CompuTrainer, helps us see your position as you pedal while helping us explain key technique and postural elements that are necessary for you to understand if you are to get the most out of your position and bike. A Fit Werx fitting also includes a gebioMized Pressure Scan to assess saddle pressure, muscular imbalance, pelvic tracking and alignment.

The end result is two-fold:  1)  A personalized position based in cycling science that addresses your current needs and goals and encourages you to ride as efficiently and as comfortably as possible.    2)  Providing you with greater awareness on where to focus posturally and muscularly.  This is far more likely to solve longer term chronic issues (saddle discomfort, numbness, back/knee issues…) than positioning changes on their own. The combination helps you truly reach your potential and riding goals.

To read more about motion capture analysis for bicycle fitting, click here.

To read more about pressure scanning for bicycle fitting, click here.

Learn More About Our Technology

Dartfish Motion Capture

Dartfish is a 2D motion capture system that is not cycling specific. The benefit of the system not being cycling specific is that a fitter can turn Dartfish into just about anything they want or need from an analysis perspective. The drawback is that few fitters take the time to understand or build out Dartfish to its potential. When setup well, Dartfish is an impressive tool. Dartfish is a multi-camera based system (www.dartfish.com) and it is very visual and an excellent tool to help athletes see and understand their posture and technique through dynamic video feedback and assessment tools. We frequently spend a lot of time in a Fit Werx fitting on posture and technique analysis and 2D motion capture is an excellent tool that helps us help you understand how to get the most comfort and performance out of your body out of your riding position and bike.

Retul

Retul is a bike specific 3D motion capture system that uses LED technology and sensors to allow the fitter to record an incredible number of key angles and averages from a rider as they ride. Retul provides data quicker than Dartfish and also provides averages and minimum/maximum ranges very quickly. The benefit to Retul for many fitters is that it is “Plug and Play”, but the disadvantage for the rider is that the program can be used as a crutch instead of a tool by a fitter who does not understand the biomechanics behind bike fitting.

CompuTrainer

Our Purely Custom Size Cycles are all equipped with CompuTrainer units to help us analyze positioning changes and instruct you on how to get the most out of your pedal stroke with tools like SpinScan.

gebioMized Pressure Scan

gebioMized Pressure Scanners are expensive investments, but they can be a very helpful tool for everything from saddle selection and problem solving to reviewing the effectiveness of cleat adjustment, shimming and other positioning changes to improve alignment and stability. Fit Werx purchased three of the very first gebioMized units available in the United States in 2011 and was at the forefront of developing assessment techniques and processes with the software. As of this writing, Fit Werx owns more gebioMized pressure scanners than any other single company in the United States.

5) Apply Your New Position to Your Current Bike or Use it to Select a Properly Fit New Bike:

Your updated fitting data is always available so that it can be used to help you find the best fitting bikes when the time is right for a new ride using our proven and guaranteed Rider Matched Bike Selection process.