"Don't Stop Believing" Journey to Ironman

It's The Bike Fit Blog Series!

Welcome to the Bike Fit Blog Series!

For the next several days, I will be hosting a video tutorial on bike fit with master fitter Husam Sahin, owner of ATA Cycle located in Concord and Cambridge, MA. Husam is renowned across the country as the go-to fitter for cyclists serious about getting the proper bike--whether you are a recreational rider, triathlon age grouper, time trial specialist, or Olympic athlete. In fact, Husam recently fit USA Olympic triathlete Jarrod Shoemaker who will compete in Beijing this summer, as well as his wife, Canadian champion Alicia Kaye.

Customers fly to the ATA Fit Lab from all over country to work with Husam. He uses cutting-edge technologies including the Retul Fit System and Dartfish videos. We'll take a good look at both. In fact, Retul was recently selected by USA Triathlon as the fit system for it's national program.

After being fit for both my road bike and new time trial bike by Husam, my feeling is if you want the perfect bike (and I mean the perfect bike), he's your man.

Today's Post
I'll do a brief intro to the series, then we'll take a look at two pieces of fitting equipment Husam Sahin uses in his initial fit assessments:

The Laser Jig
and the
Argon 18 Fit Bike

INTRODUCTION

THE LASER JIG

THE ARGON FIT BIKE

Next Post
Retul System Intro

Upcoming Posts

Using Retul In A Time Trial Bike Fit

Final Time Trial Bike Adjustments Using Retul

Dartfish Video and How to Pick A Frame

Husam Sahin, Owner of ATA Cycle, Riffs on Bike Fitting in the U.S.

Customer Nolan Watts Reacts to His Experience at ATA Cycle

 

ATA Cycle

Husam Sahin, Owner
93 Thoreau St., Concord, MA  978-369-5960
1173 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA  617-354-0907

The End of Flat Tire Nightmares?

Did you know about a product called Vittoria Pit-Stop? These are, quite possibly, the most beautiful words I have ever read:

Vittoria Pit Stop is a pressurized cylinder filled with compressed gas and polymer foam sealant. You carry the cylinder with you in a bike bag or jersey pocket. When you have a flat tire you simply open your valve stem, press the nozzle on the Vittoria Pit Stop canister onto your valve stem and press toward the tire to release the compressed gas and the liquid foam sealant. Both substances shoot into the tire under pressure. The gas inflates the tire while the foam sealant flows into the puncture and instantly dries, sealing the hole and fixing the flat.

I'm sitting here thinking--are you kidding me??? Something like this exists and might work???? And I didn't know about it?????  You don't need to take the wheel off (think the rear one), or use any tools! If this isn't intervention from the Divine, I don't know what is. On top of everything else, I've heard from a couple of people that it actually works!

Yes, I can change a flat, but I really don't want to in an Ironman, or any race for that matter. It gets even more complicated when you have bad close up vision. I don't need glasses for far away, but I can't see the details of tire changing very well. I just refuse to carry a pair of "readers" in my tool bag!

This could be the stuff that peaceful dreams are made of. I, for one, am ready to lose the race-day-flat-tire nightmares. I'm going to give it a try and report back.

Here's the review I read at Bike Sport Michigan.

I also welcome any other suggestions that have changed your cycling life!