THE HOME OF DECENTRALISED BIKE FITTING
My name is Garry Kirk and I’ve been a professional bike fitter for over a decade. Before that, I spent more than ten years studying the subject in depth.
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Over that time, I’ve developed a unique skillset that allows me to deliver some of the most cutting-edge, scientifically grounded bike fitting services available in the world today.
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I call this decentralised bike fitting, and you can read more about it in my blog [here].
SCOTLANDS PREMIERE BIKE FITTING SERVICE
I've always had a passion for cycling and have ridden bikes, in one form or another for all of my life. Bike position-or bike fit -has always been at the forefront of my mind too and from as early as I can remember I've seen bike position as an almost poetic, artistic coming together of man and machine. I've made it a personal mission of mine to find that ‘coming together’ for everyone I fit here.
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There are many different approaches to bike fitting but by far the most common is whereby a shop or individual purchases some bike fitting technology, attends a short course on it’s use, then moves on to using centralised, systemised formulaic methods to deliver their bike fits. I call this centralised bike fitting.
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The reason this approach is so common is because it allows people to remove themselves from the responsibility of the fitting process. That responsibility is shifted onto the fitting technology or system being used. It also means almost anyone can do it—there’s no need for any pre-existing knowledge, understanding, or even experience.
I say knowledge, understanding & experience, because without that, you are pretty much a slave to technology, relying on certain manufacturers centralised ideas or more commonly, manufacturers assumptions about what constitutes a proper bike fit to arrive at your final results.
The issue with that, is the assumption that firstly those assumptions are correct and secondly, that we can fit individuals within a certain set of parameters and always get the same results. The problems begin to arise when centralised results are not satisfactory and the bike fitter doesn’t know why or how to fix them.
That is why you should consider a decentralised bike fitter.
