Brent Bookwalter BMC breaks collarbone on wet roads!

Brent Bookwalter breaks collarbone at 2011 Volta a Catalunya "OUCH"

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  Brent Bookwalter (BMC) hit the rain-slickeened deck in Sunday’s finale at the Volta a Catalunya in Spain and broke his left collarbone.

He will undergo surgery this week and hopes to return ASAP!

Early Season Success - Great Results!

Early WN's for many WN fitted folks. Team Exergy takes 2nd, Bishop takes 2nd, Gould takes 2nd, Butler takes 1st. Two top-tens with Amanda Carey in 10th. These are pros folks! The smallest of % makes a difference! Correct information makes a difference.

Does a Tiger Woods win every event?

Top marks. Is that not what you expect from precision!

What's pretty cool? Six of the top ten pro mtb gals who placed in the top 10 are in our data bank. We must know something?

It makes you feel good to know you have worked w/ the fastest folks in the game. That we are focused on the correct things.

Can a change in one's position make a difference?

The quadriceps femoris via common tendinous (quadriceps tendon) & independent attachments to base of patella; indirectly via patellar ligament to tibial tuberosity. Get it right or ouch! In fact have poor skills and ouch! The articular muscle of the knee is greatly over looked with the KOPS! Muscles only pull, and they can be pulled too much.

The articular muscle of the knee (L. articularis genus), a small, flat muscle, a derivative of the vastus imtermedius attaches superiorly to the inferior part of the anterior aspect of the femur & inferiorly to the synovial membrane of the knee joint & the wall of the suprapatellar bursa.

The articular muscle pulls the synovial membrane during extension of the leg, preventing folds or being compressed between the femur & patella w/in the knee joint. If your saddle it too low, too far forward, you place too much tension on it and it can be pulled (micro tears).

As for the patella (knee cap), it is a large sesamoid bone, formed intratendinously after birth, located anterior to the knee joint. You can have a number of different types i.e. Type I, Type II, Type III, etc... It articulates with the femur. The anterior surface of the patella is convex; the thick base (superior border) slopes inferoanteriorly; the 2 lateral & medail borders converge inferiorly to form the pointed apex, and the articular surface of the knee cap is smooth, oval area divided into articular facets by a vertical ridge. They are not all the same!!!

Phinney has to withdraw from Catalunya with knee pain!

Did they use the KOPS on him? We know that method can harm your knees, yet it is used?

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  WN - the smallest of changes can take you out! "Compression, shearing and tension" really makes a difference. Why take a guess when you can obtain your best solution?
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• Pain in his left knee forced Taylor Phinney (BMC) to abandon his first WorldTour race.

Reports point out that Phinney said he first felt the pain on stage 1. On the 3rd stage, he hung with the peloton over the first two climbs. But by the third climb, his knee was done, he said. “One of the hardest things to do in the sport of cycling is to get off your bike and I fought as hard as I could. I am incredibly disappointed!

Your career in any sport is short lived, yet another setback in his first year as a professional.

BMC chief medical officer Dr. Max Testa said the pain in Phinney’s quadricep tendon was likely due to several factors: small changes in his position a few days before the race, cold weather on the race’s opening day, and the intensity difference between training and racing.

We will never know! Who ever performed the fit will never point to one thing, but if they used the used the KOPS, that is the most likely issue. Too low a saddle can hurt you!

Want to know more? Do your homework and you be the judge!

If you aren't in the game, your out! Below is true story about a guy who was in great pain before, then he used our fit.

tom

you fitted me in boise in late june/early july of this past year. i was the guy with the blue felt doing the oregon to new hampshire abb group ride the rest of the ride went great i rode trouble-free, more at ease on the bike (and off the bike afterwards), and faster the rest of the way "levitating" the remaining 2,500 miles.

i sold the bike when i got home but transferred the measurements to an older kestrel that is just more fun to ride

anyway i'm thinking of buying a new road bike i currently have 172.5 cranks but would like to do things right

would you recommend a crankarm length based on my measurements?

thanks again for the great fit and a memorable conversation

mark scheer

Kend MTB Team site up!!!

Kenda MTB Team site is up.

www.kendamtbteam.com

Pua is back! She takes WN in the south for Team Sho-Air!

A WN in Arkansas this past weekend, I hope you enjoy it.

With an unexpected turn of events and what I believe was fate, things took a drastic turn for me. After one meeting a week before the race, I was agreeing to take a trip to Arkansas to race the first stop of the Pro UET, for the same team that helped to make my dream of racing come true 5 years ago - Team Sho-Air.

I look forward to talking with you and hope you have an awesome day!

aloha,

pua

UCI Rule: On Bike Aero Position!

Our laser gets it right!

UCI Rules!

The nose of a given saddle has to be 5cm behind the bottom bracket!

Regarding the other direction, the aero bars can't exceed 75cm at end of shifters!

If your very tall, you can add 5cm to reach.

Gould Romps, Bishop Surges at Pro XCT #1

Georgia Gould on Saturday dominated the first national cross-country race of the season on the women’s side while Sid Taberlay did on the men’s — that is until a resurgent Jeremiah Bishop kicked in the afterburners on the last lap.

PRO XCT 2011
March 12: US Cup Triple Crown Bonelli Park – San Dimas, CA

Sue Butler WN's "Red to Red mtb" over Rebecca Rusch!

WN'ING IS THE GREATEST FEELING IN THE WORLD!

Sue Butler takes the mtb WN over World 24 hour pro Rebecca Rusch in OR.

If you check our history, you will note we worked with, coached Rusch on her pedal stroke for years, getting her to focus on things that even got her a few worlds, then "S" a major bike company put her on their pay role!

There is no better way to make a point about fits than real results.

Sue Butler is a WN user! Sue made a statement!

Red To Red mtb race #1 Sue Butler & husband Tim # 2nd in his race. They only use WN!

Date: Saturday March 12, 2011

Location: Echo, OR

Type of Event: Mountain

ORBA RED TO RED MOUNTAIN BIKE RACE, 28 miles mostly single track, Sno Road Winery/ Echo West vineyared trail. 12 miles desert arroyo trail through the steep vineyard to the river bottom forest then back to the town of Echo where the sponsering winery SNO ROAD will have tasteing open!

Shonny Vanladingham - takes 2011 XTERRA Phiippines!

Shonny Vanlandingham

"Wide Open"

1st - ever XTERRA Philippines Championship!

In the women’s race Renata Bucher was first off the bike, followed 11 seconds later by reigning XTERRA World Champion Shonny Vanlandingham.

Vanlandingham took the lead three kilometers into the run part of the race after riding and running side-by-side with Renata Bucher for a large portion of the run and biking part of the race. Vanlandingham said she got through the most difficult part of the race because of the support of locals who watched and supported the participants.

“You just got so much energy from the cheering of the community,” said Vanlandingham. “The kids who watched the bike and run part of the race were chanting and cheering. It’s great to come to a place like the Philippines.”

Vanlandingham’s winning time was 2:31:39, nearly two minutes ahead of Bucher who finished in 2:33:35.

2011 XTERRA WORLD TOUR SCHEDULE

Today’s XTERRA Philippines Championship race was the second event to qualify amateur athletes into the XTERRA World Championship to be held in Maui, Hawaii on October 23, 2011. A total of 34 slots were awarded to the top finishers in each age division. Next up, XTERRA Saipan Championship, and here’s a look at the rest of the 2011 XTERRA World Tour Championships.

Date – Event (Location)
Feb 26 – XTERRA South Africa Championship (Western Cape)
Mar 6 – XTERRA Philippines Championship (Cebu)
Mar 12 – XTERRA Saipan Championship (Northern Marianas)
Apr 9 – XTERRA New Zealand Championship (Rotorua)
May 29 – XTERRA Italy Championship+ (Orosei, Sardinia)
June 11 – XTERRA Brazil Championship (Manaus, Amazon)
June 25 – XTERRA Austria Championship+ (Carinthia)
July 10 – XTERRA France Championship+ (Xonrupt, Alsace)
Aug 6 – XTERRA Mexico Championship (Valle De Bravo)
Aug 13 – XTERRA Czech Championship+ (Spindleruv Mlyn)
Aug 20 – XTERRA European/Germany Championship+ (Zittau)
Aug 27 – XTERRA Japan Championship (Marunuma)
Sept 4 – XTERRA Canada Championship (Whistler)
Sept 10 – XTERRA Switzerland Championship+ (Prangins)
Sept 24 – XTERRA USA Championship (Ogden/Snowbasin, UT)
Oct 23 – XTERRA World Championship (Maui, Hawaii)

2011 Ironman New Zealand Kate Bevilaqua - WN Fast!

There are a ton of Tri fit ideas! But do they really uncover the facts?

Kate is starting out very strong!

When Kate came to us her hips where all jacked up! She had been fitted by the so called tri fit pros? After we fixed her, Kate started laying down some WN Fast bike times!

Warriner was the first woman out of T1 and onto the bike course. It was a lead that she would not relinquish during the 112 mile bike ride. Warriner finished the ride in 5:10:39. Kate Bevilaqua (WN Precison) rode a 5:11:55 to be in second place at the end of the ride and Belinda Harper, making her pro debut, was in third after her 5:18:11 split. Both Lawn and Carfrae flatted during the ride.

The women’s top 10:

1) Samantha Warriner (Whangarei, NZ) – 9:28:24

2) Mirinda Carfrae (Australia/Colorado) – 9:31:33

3) Joanna Lawn (Auckland, NZ) – 9:31:53

4) Kate Bevilaqua WN Precison (Perth, Australia) – 9:40:01

5) Belinda Harper (Auckland, NZ) – 9:40:33

6) Kirsten Molloy (Nowra, NSW, Australia) - 9:49:02

7) Michelle Mitchell (Palmerston, NT, Australia) - 9:50:04

8) Janine Willis (Perth, Australia) - 9:55:17*

9) Candice Hammond (Cambridge, NZ) - 9:56:41*

10) Renee Lane (Geelong, Australia) - 10:01:59

Continue reading on Examiner.com:

To Be WN Fast "To Be or Not To be"

In running & jogging, the walking pattern is modified slightly by adding a phase of nonsupport.
In running the foot is estimated to about 3 times the body weight.

In running as walking, the movements of the leg & foot follow a sequence. At a certain phase the rearfoot is positioned in a slight inversion before heel contact; followed by slight plantar-flexion motion as the forefoot moves to the ground.

Many times there deformities. For example excessive pronation during gait. Meaning excessive foot mobility, which can increase the stresses to structures and fascial.

Now think of cycling, it is not total weight bearing. You heel never makes contact with the pedal. Think of your bike shoe, excessive foot mobility causes increased stresses to structures and fascial. Even when semi-weight bearing upon a saddle, excessive foot mobility can cause issues through the whole human linked chain.

Its like bad parts on the front of your car. You will wear out!

You better get your toe in & toe out plus the yaw right.

Having a pretty pedal stroke will not make a difference if you
can't put the foot where it needs to be!

The lower leg might seem easy to understand, but it's not. Get a fit and we will teach you how to best transfer through all phases of the pedal stroke.

Male or Female? They don't sit on the saddle the same!

The next time a guy attempts to teach a gal how to sit on a saddle, show them this!

When can you become too aero?

The person who crosses the line first wins the race! That means you need to turn the legs over.

After years in the ski industry, wind tunnels, etc... we knew that its important to be able to move the legs. We learned the precise range of motion needed at speed. If you can't move your legs because you are too aero you stand a good chance of being in the woods! Being more aero was not always faster! A saddle that is too low, turns off the legs!

A read from www.velonews.com

He had a nice position before and he was not keen to change it. I said, ‘Alberto, I have an idea on how I think we can do better, we can just go back if it doesn’t work,’” Riis told the Danish paper. “So I moved him around a bit and he improved 1.75 seconds per kilometer. Such things helped to open him.”

Team Exergy - Callville Bay 2011 "Carlos Alzate #1 GC"

2011 RESULTS!

www.teamexergy.com

Team Exergy - First race "RESULTS"

Team Exergy - The real deal! They take their first race!

Read about it at their new site!

www.teamexergy.com

RESULTS!

Real Science is Inside Out - Not Outside In!

Its what under the skin that matters!

Ernesto Marenchin & Brian Bennett "POW"- 24 hr. Old Pueblo!

Let's go racing!

Time to test all those fit ideas.

Ernesto Marenchin and Brian Bennett take the duo WN at Old Pueblo 24 hours.

Ben Sonntag, WNner of La Ruta de los Conquistadores was impressive throughout the race. While his 5-person co-ed NoTubes/Weapons of Ass Destruction team finished second in their division, Sonntag rode blistering laps in under one hour.

WN Fast!

TWENTY-NINE INCH Bikes and Fitting Opinions!

Mass market ideas on fitting don't cut it on the 29er! The wheels are larger and the real concern is getting the saddle to top of handlebars correct. For example the riser bars really throw things off.

Feb 16th, 2011 "Bizarre" Contador In & Armstrong Out?

In a bizarre series of events, the Spanish cycling federation has cleared Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, and exonerated him of any doping charges. He is therefore free to race immediately.

Now the news that Lance Armstrong is out only days apart?

This is a day of history in the cycling world.

Controversial career

Lance Armstrong has announced his retirement. He become increasingly mired in controversy. He was to take part in a number of events on the US calendar in 2011?

Was Contador the straw that broke Armstrongs back?

Armstrong revealed his decision in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday in Austin, Texas.

There will not be a 8th Tour de France!

The allegations of doping in his former US Postal Service team that surfaced in 2010 and they will not just go away!

Are You Crushing It? Too Much Back Extension Breaking You Down?

Wonder why the back gets sore?

Did you know sit ups, crunches and back extensions do more harm to the lower back than most people realize. Now jump on your bike and you will realize more what a bad fit can cause an ouch!

Enlightening information protects your spine.

A couple of reasons to avoid these exercises:

1) "The sit-up imposes approximately 3300 N or about 730 pounds of compression on the spine." This means that every time you do a sit-up, knees bent with feet locked under something, sitting up from the ground to vertical, that amount of pressure is crushing your intervertebral discs. "The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health has set the action limit for low back compression at 3300 N. Repetitive loading about this level is linked with higher injury rates in workers, yet this is imposed on the spine with each repetition of the sit-up!"

2) Back extensions are no better. On the roman chair (this is the piece of equipment that is set at 45 degrees and you can lock your feet and rest your thighs on it so that you can drop and lift your upper body, working the back) performing one back extension, imposes over 4000 N or about 890lbs of compression on the spine These types of exercises impose up to 6000 N or over 1300lbs of spinal load and compression, then add road noise. These exercises are referred to as the "superman". Please avoid these exercises at all bike fitting costs! The deadlift both work the back and spine in the biomechanically correct fashion. There is no isolation of the muscles and the body works as one functional unit.

How does the core function on a bike?

3) The most important aspect of abdominal muscle performance on a bike is obtaining the control that is necessary to A) Appropriately stabilize the spine, B) Maintain optimal alignment and movement relationships between the pelvis and spine to the saddle and C) Prevent excessive stress and motions of the pelvis during movements of the extremities i.e. too low of a saddle.

4) Hopefully Point C above enlightens you? You can see that what we are trying to do is train the core to stabilize the pelvis, and to efficiently transfer force to the arms and legs.

What does this all mean?

5) In cycling, there is obvious risk taken by working out, but if we can make good choices we can do a better job at avoiding injury.

6) In sports it is necessary to have abdominal strength in flexion. avoid too much spinal loading while still working hard. Cycling exercise can be tough and its best to work the abs while minimizing the spinal loading and reps performed.

Avoid any type of back extension where possible and try to work the core as it was meant to function. Lot's of front support, side support, and anti-extension exercises will make a difference.

The Perineum - Male bike fitters need to know. An area of concern!

The above model is the pressure contact points of a saddle for a female.

The above is the male contact points on that same saddle.

Too many male fitters tell the gals how to ride, and how to sit on the saddle by their own feelings. I can't think of the last time I have seen a guy give childbirth even if they did have something to do with it.

No wonder so many gals come to us with an ouch!

The perineum refers to the area of the trunk between the thighs and the buttocks. The pelvis is limited inferiorly by the pelvic outlet, the inferior pelvic aperture, which is bounded anteriorly by the pubic symphysis and posteriorly by the coccyx.

There seems to be many who think this area of the body doesn't come in many shapes and sizes.

In fact their fit ideas don't take a precision measruement?

Then you have the comparison of male and female and its the subpubic angle adn pubic arch that can't be on the outer side of the leg by video and some short of leds?

The man pelvis is heaver & thicker than a female pelvis and has more prominent bone markings. In contrast, the female pelvis is wider, shallower, and has a larger outlet.

The diameter of the lesser pelvis is key not just for childbirth, but how you need a correct pelvic examination. We measure that and that makes a difference.

There is no reason to have an ouch because of a very misleading bike fit!

This isn't your run of the mill "Bob" He has a PhD and gets it!

Wireless communications!

"Molasses, snails and glaciers: none are slower than an organization developing a new wireless standard. "

PhD Bob now works for Bob, he use to head R&D for HP here in Boise, ID, for 26 years! When you have to work for the man, you can't develop. We had coffee at the "Cof-fice" and after showing him what we need, you best stay tuned!

The mother of invention comes from snails not getting it!

WN & Bob just might change the cycling world big time. Why? Because we know what's needed! Not about price point molasses, snails, and glaciers.

We both know how slow organization move, many of the ideas fall on deaf ears!

3000 BC To 2011 Why does man not learn?

The function of the body is one of the oldest basic medical sciences, it started in Egypt about 500 BC.

In Greece, Hippocrates (460-377 BC) wrote books on anatomy. Aristotle (384-322 BC) was the first to use the term anatome, a Greek word meaning "cutting up or taking apart."

You would think in 2011, bike fit systems would not just conduct bike fits from the outside only?

There is much more skin than meets the eye!

Minnesota's Penn Cycles - Chris Baiser "Real Deal Myth Buster"

My fees have increased for 2011.

No Complaints! For $300.00, or less, I can guarantee a minimum of 20+ watts without altering HR.

How? The WN fit is CAD based. It provides me the blueprint for your success. When correctly positioned, more effective muscle recruitment is possible, and pedaling technique is amenable.

The result is increased watts, without increased effort.

Every person that I have fit since training with Tom Coleman (Wobble-Naught “WN”) has achieved between 20-100 watt gains.

Penn Cycle & Chris Baiser are a real force. Chris is a real warrior!

What ever it takes for truth, not hype!

CHRIS bAISER - a 20 YEAR PRO BIKE FITTER!

hAS USED EVERY SYSTEM IN THE GAME.

Fit Kit, BG Fit, Retul, others "lISTEN PEOPLE" to his story!

penn cycles = ONLY THE best for their customers!

Bicycle Fit Guru
Chris Balser
10750 Cedar Bend
Minneapolis, MN 55305
612-462-3526
www.bicyclefitguru.com

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Only Your Nose Knows? Or does it? Watts Up about saddles?

When is the last time you been on a cover page?

Kate uses our fit, she even paid for it!!!

We know why she is WN Fast!

www.katebevilaqua.com

Word of mouth, tradition, or intuition for their veracity (conformity to facts; accuracy).

The picture above is of a Selle Italia saddle with a nose. Selle Italia is attempting to make a "Friction Free" saddle, to eliminate friction between thighs & saddle.

Fizik is making their saddle more flat and more narrow!

ISM is really strong in straight line events, tri and gaining in tt.

New for 2011 and all about straight line performance!

Their report: From the start gate to the finish line, you will slice through the competition. ISM’s winning design allows for increased hip rotation, thus decreasing a rider’s aerodynamic drag and opens the diaphragm for easier breathing. Riders report an increase in wattage due to the more aggressive positioning. Sloped front arms provide extra relief to the superficial perineal space. NO NUMBNESS – NO PAIN. Uses light weight foam and gel pads with titanium alloy rails. 245mm long and 130mm wide.

Available in Black or White

MSRP $224.95

We have been telling the industry for years that hip rotation is key for performance.

That is why we find the correct tilt of saddle, not eye it.

But a 800 lb. ape can't communicate.

They claim upright is the way to go?