Turbo bike fitting and self-fitting checks with Doug Shaw, founder of Edinburgh Bike Fitting

Expert bike fitter, Doug Shaw, founder of Edinburgh Bike Fitting, joins us to chat through his background, bike fitting, some things to consider and some tests you can do yourself to check you are in the optimal position while we are all on lockdown.

Contact Doug: [email protected]
- www.Edinburghbikefitting.com

- Their online bike fitting and audit
- Scottish Highland Games
- International Bike Fitting Institute
- Gruber Images

- https://research.stmarys.ac.uk/id/eprint/3000/3/Jeffries-et-al-Analysis-of-Variability.pdf (increase in variability of power in outdoor cycling compared to indoor.)

- https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/Fulltext/2014/08000/Physiological_and_Psychological_Responses_to.29.aspx power lower indoor for the same RPE (rate of perceived exertion)

- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00426312 abstract only but higher thermoregulatory stress indoors

- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11924888_Reliability_of_Mean_Power_Recorded_During_Indoor_and_Outdoor_Self-Paced_40_km_Cycling_Time-Trials reliability of power recorded trial but shows up to 30W lower indoors for the same given task full paper available top right of page