Gravel bike fitting
Discussion
So all my friends are old and lazy and have succumbed to gravel bikes, they go on adventures, send me pictures of bridleways and gravel tracks (and bivvy sites with fires and beers!) and it all actually looks quite good fun… I flog myself on Zwift and country lanes on my own and I can’t help feel they have the better deal…
So I’m sat on www.velomatch.com looking at options and it’s really quite good because the whole website is fit-centric so I can get the fundamentals sorted because in all honesty, I don’t care about groupsets anymore… I just want a bike that fits, especially if I’m on it all day, day after day. I’ve used data from a previous Retul level 2 fit so I’m confident with the data and the geometry data must be from the Manufacturer.
This is the bike in question, a BMC URS One
The indicative bike fit looks promising, this is the fit data.
My understanding is that I can move me (the blue dot) out to the right a bit with a longer stem and I am still comfortably in the “this will fit” box based on Reach and Stack?
There is another option, the Orbea Tera MX20 and the fit data is promising too
In my head, being at the bottom/right of the box makes more sense though? I’m loathe to just add a longer stem when the bike is designed to pitch the rider up a bit more
Any thoughts?! And yes I could go and sit on them all but stock and stockists etc etc
So I’m sat on www.velomatch.com looking at options and it’s really quite good because the whole website is fit-centric so I can get the fundamentals sorted because in all honesty, I don’t care about groupsets anymore… I just want a bike that fits, especially if I’m on it all day, day after day. I’ve used data from a previous Retul level 2 fit so I’m confident with the data and the geometry data must be from the Manufacturer.
This is the bike in question, a BMC URS One
The indicative bike fit looks promising, this is the fit data.
My understanding is that I can move me (the blue dot) out to the right a bit with a longer stem and I am still comfortably in the “this will fit” box based on Reach and Stack?
There is another option, the Orbea Tera MX20 and the fit data is promising too
In my head, being at the bottom/right of the box makes more sense though? I’m loathe to just add a longer stem when the bike is designed to pitch the rider up a bit more
Any thoughts?! And yes I could go and sit on them all but stock and stockists etc etc
That's quite clever I haven't seen that site before. Nice. I might have to give that a try, do you need proper Retul data for it to work?
The Orbea looks the tits but if it doesn't fit then you're going to regret it on a long bikepacking trip. I bought my Aspero based on a guesstimate of the fit and to be honest I kind of wish I hadn't, it feels a bit cramped.
The Orbea looks the tits but if it doesn't fit then you're going to regret it on a long bikepacking trip. I bought my Aspero based on a guesstimate of the fit and to be honest I kind of wish I hadn't, it feels a bit cramped.
Interesting.
So I bought the 3T based on geo data available and a comparison with the S3 but it’s nowhere’s near and yes, I feel cramped on it. Now accepting that a racey aero bike and a gravel bike are two totally different things, where I think Velomatch’s “circle in a box” is helping, and leading me to the Orbea is the fact that it seems to suggest there is more scope for adjustment.
You can put in fit data or just select your current bike from the menu and use that geo as a baseline.
So I bought the 3T based on geo data available and a comparison with the S3 but it’s nowhere’s near and yes, I feel cramped on it. Now accepting that a racey aero bike and a gravel bike are two totally different things, where I think Velomatch’s “circle in a box” is helping, and leading me to the Orbea is the fact that it seems to suggest there is more scope for adjustment.
You can put in fit data or just select your current bike from the menu and use that geo as a baseline.
Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 28th February 22:41
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