Knee pain

WELL.

THIS HAPPENS TO ME, MY CASE ITS TENDONITIS. I NEED ANTI-INFLAMATORY, AND LESS SADDLE TIME. PAIN USUALLY STOPS WITH REST.

YOU MAY ALSO NEED TO ADJUST SADDLE HEIGHT.

As per ddb, try adjusting your saddle height, Mark. You probably already know this, but when you're sitting on the saddle, and the pedal is in its lowest position, your knee needs to be slightly bent. Having your leg fully extended so that your knee can lock backwards when you're pedalling is bad news.

Pretty sure my saddle height is spot on, and I haven't had this knee pain before on this bike, but I'll take a look. The cleat adjustment thing does seem logical since it's the only obvious change to my bike I've made recently. Tendonitis would suck quite a lot but hopefully it's a one-off which I can fix.

Can anyone advise as to whether a "gel seat cover" is a wise or necessary accessory for my trip?

1. id say gel covers or saddles are pretty yech
2. notwithstanding the knee pain issues which require attn, if yr close to your event i wouldnt change yr position very much. gel pad might disrupt yr position or pedaling.

My recent knee pain was inflammation/small amount of fluid on the knee and the doctor put me on a month's course of diclofenac, an anti-inflamatory. It seems to have sorted it.

I'll give the gel cover a miss I think - I def don't want to fiddle with my position any more. I have readjusted my cleats so I *hope* they'll be okay - most annoying, though.

The knee isn't hurting any more, though pushing a baby buggy down a steep gravel track yesterday made it twinge a touch. I'm staying off the bike for another two or three days, then I'll test the knee/cleat on a commuting day Weds or Thurs. I do now have a shitty cold but hey, it's only a cold, it should be mostly gone by Friday.

I tweaked my indexing on the rear derailleur yesterday. Damn I hope I haven't fucked shit up.

Rode the bike tonight out of necessity as my car's being serviced - 3 miles each way to a friend's house. Started off gingerly, no pain, upped to regular crusing speed, no pain, climbed a short but steep hill out of the saddle, no pain. Think my knee (and my cleat) is okay. Fingers crossed.

medical moment from triple bypass on saturday--my neck/shoulders started hurting rather badly at about 4 hours if i tried to raise my arms. so at one of the rest stops they had set up, i stopped in at the medical tent, staffed by a bunch of emt's.

me: "do you have any aspirin?"
emt: "we're not allowed to give out medicine."
m: "come on, its aspirin. youre the medical tent!"
e: "youre sposed to bring your own."
m: "didnt say that on the ride guide, they said medical support."
e: "so."

probly wouldnt have helped anyway. my buddy who was riding with me is an er nurse, but didnt witness the interaction. his response was "fuck, that is SUCH an emt thing to say."

nurses vs emts-- FITE. who knew?

so mark--bring your own aspirin if you think you might need it.

Thanks Hunter - it was the same when I was at school, they weren't allowed to give out painkillers in case you had an allergic reaction or choked or whatever. It's political correctness gone mad! etc.

actually, europe and aus are like that with medicines, arent they? in aus i was like, "you need a scrip for bacitracin?"

thats why we yanks have so many pharmaceuticals in our water rite?

I just spent 90 minutes attaching a fucking computer to my new bike. Seriously, fuck that. The plastic ties, the fiddly crappy tiny sensors which you have to attach to impossible bits of your bike (which, for all that it is posh and streamlined and oversized, is pretty useless for attaching the computer to when it was clearly designed for a thin-tubed 1925 touring velocipede), and the fact that I'll probably have to try and redo the whole fucking thing when I ride it and it inevitably doesn't work (yes, I've tested it as far as you can by rotating the wheel and the pedals - I reckon cadence sensors are such a con considering you can count the bloody rpm with barely any problem if you're really interested).

Also, my bike which two days ago was beautiful and uncluttered now has a headlight, a computer and a sodding mandatory-in-France bell ruining it's sexy visage.

AAAARGH rogue apostrophe!

Kinda scary.

Recently transitioned from casual commuter to ROADIE and got fitted on nubike2.0 and perhaps in a bout of "too much too soon"... what began with an odd *twinge* in the right knee turned into, several rides later, full-on worrysome knee pain.

No problem, 2 week trip to Europe should solve that, nothing a bit of rest &c. &c.

So coming back to the states, first ride back on Saturday we went for some climbing and what do you know, mid-ride up the first steep ascent... knee pain. I rode through it. It's not excruciating at it's worst, rather omnipresent uncomfortability.

So I decided to do what any intelligent person would do... googled "knee pain cycling" and read up on what the www's highest google seeds had to say about it.

First impressions... bike fit may have been off. seat too high. cleat problem in right shoe. forgot to tell fitter about my crazy right ankle that was shattered and reassembled in skateboard accident which may cause some wonky angle problems in my cadence motion?

so after reading up on all this, i decide for another logical course of action. give it some rest and try to ride through it. this was yesterday. my objective was: high rpms, low gearing, take it easy. did an easy 25 miles, first 10 fixed in my 50/25. did 7 laps around the track in 50/18. felt fine. pushed it a little bit on the way home, trying hard not to overdo it. again, fine.

may take another spin tonight because knee feels better today than it did yesterday. again, nothing too intense, just keeping the cranks spinning and the knee loose.

will report back with any further updates if any develop.

yeah i still think this is a fit issue. it's not like you just started riding a bike. you ride one everyday.