Professional Bike Fitting in Melbourne

What is Physio Bike Fitting?

A professional bike fit is about making your bike and your equipment fit you - enhancing your abilities, limiting your limitations and most importantly meeting your goals. Every cyclist we see is unique and comes with their own levels of flexibility, range of motion, history of injuries and comfort levels.  We offer Physio bike fitting Melbourne that measures and considers all of these before making any adjustments to your equipment. Anything less we consider to be a “bike sizing” which often isn’t enough to maximise your cycling performance. If you want to increase your speed, power output, pedal stroke efficiency and reduce injury, our Cycling Physiotherapists have expert clinical skills and bike-fit expertise to design an individualised plan for you to exceed your cycling goals.

Physio Bike Fitting at Keilor Road Physiotherapy

Our specialist physiotherapy knowledge and history with bike ergonomics, coupled with our state of the art practice, uniquely qualifies us to offer the highest level of professional bike fitting in Melbourne. Our dynamic fitting unit helps us dial in positions while the rider is in motion, a one of a kind experience in the bike fitting world. 

Our Bike Fitting Melbourne expert - physiotherapist and avid cyclist Scott Sanders, has worked with weekend warriors, elite road cyclists, mountain bikers, triathletes and complete beginners to rehabilitate their bike injuries, improve cycling performance and maximise comfort on their bikes.

A bike fit session at Keilor Road Physiotherapy will take 1 hour and 20 minutes. With advanced video technology, cycling equipment, AxIT© Performance analysis and a fully equipped onsite gym, we analyse and implement the crucial requirements for your health and cycling success.

What a Bike Ergonomic assessment looks like:

Firstly and most importantly, we will listen to your goals and aspirations, limitations, and injury/health concerns before undertaking a physical assessment off the bike. This includes:

- Biomechanical analysis - assessing your flexibility, range of motion and body measurements. It may also include use of our AxIT performance testing technology.
- Footwear and cleat analysis 
- Video and gait analysis 
- Optimising your seat and body positioning 
- Optimising power output from the legs
- Adjusting trunk and arm positions for economy and comfort 

This leads to the on-bike review and equipment alterations starting with hip, knee and foot alignment for maximum pedal efficiency. Modifications to your equipment will optimise:
- Bar selection and position
- Stem angle and reach
- Cleat position and shoes
- Pedals and footbeds
- Saddle position.

Incremental adjustments to your geometry and posture will all be enhanced during your session. This allows us to:
- Address niggling pains and discomfort
- Increase power and speed from your machine.
- Optimise power output from the legs
- Adjust trunk and arm position for economy and comfort

We can also provide recommendations and strategies to work on during training and competitive rides (including warm ups, rehab exercises, technique cues and drills) 

Lastly, we provide a take home report outlining the findings, changes made and strategies to implement. Follow-up after your initial session will also take place within the first week if necessary, to make sure your bike fit is optimised to 100%.

Why our Bike Fit sessions work

Finding the optimal Bike Fit for you is part of our process here at Keilor Road Physio. The benefit of getting a bike fit with one of our highly trained Physiotherapists is our expert knowledge of anatomy and biomechanics to help maximise the fit’s results. We couple this with our knowledge of equipment and technology that might be available to optimise your efficiency or position. We will make the bike work with your body's natural alignment and you’ll come away with unparalleled knowledge of your own body-bike interface. We can help with:

- Setting up and adjusting to a new bike or shoes 
- Improved comfort while riding
- Preventing and reducing your risk of cycling injury 
- Post operative return to the bike 
- Tendinopathy or overuse injuries sustained from cycling 
- Starting out on the bike as a complete beginner 
- Postural related cycling pain in your back, neck, shoulder and arms 
- Performance enhancement to get you closer to your goals
- Post-natal, pelvic floor and women’s health concerns
- Pelvic, back or hip pain
- Foot/ankle, knee, ITB or hip flexor pain  
- Gaining an understanding of your cycling limitations during injury 
- Developing a training plan to improve performance
- Training load management

We have a strong referral network of cycling coaches, bike technicians, bike accessories and medical specialists if you want to continue facilitating better cycling performance. Our fully equipped rehabilitation and gym space is also a fantastic place to stay in contact with your Bike Fit physiotherapist and keep on track with your cycling program.

Who should get a Bike Fit?

Endurance athletes seeking efficiency. Fitness novices craving comfort. No matter the motivation, no one is better equipped to help guide your bike selection and setup than a Keilor Road Physiotherapist.

From visually unnatural pedal strokes, to those with more subtle body changes like leg length discrepancies, limited flexibility, previous injuries and pain, we hear “it’s always been like that”, or “I’ve learned to live with it”, and these are never excuses to ignore the ability to improve your bike posture or performance. After seeing riders from all walks of life benefit from our bike  fitting, our experience tells us that anyone who enjoys their time in the saddle should consider it.

What to bring to your Bike Fit?

Bring your bike, cycling shoes, a water bottle and your bibs, shirt or jersey.

How much does Bike Fitting cost?

For your 1 hour 20 minute, 1:1 Physio Bike Fit assessment, we charge $315. Physio Bike Fits may be able to be claimed through private health insurance, depending on your level of cover, but we ask that you confirm this with your private health insurer.

Servicing Niddrie, Essendon, Airport West, Keilor & the Northern suburbs for over 40 years, you can book with our Bike Fit expert, book below or call 93794557 to speak to one of our admin superstars.