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Riding with dislocatable shoulders

Hi Lee,  I recently dislocated my left shoulder for the 4th time (at age 30) mountain biking and am going through the process of looking into surgery or rehabilitation.  I can across your blog post discussing handlebar width and could immediately sympathize with the issues you spoke about. I was wondering if there was a follow up […]

Handlebar sweep and roll

Hi Lee, I was wondering if you can comment on how handlebar roll affects hand and wrist position while riding. I had a coaching session with a local guy here and he rolled my bar upwards so that I effectively had more stack height. It immediately felt more comfortable, it seemed like the way the […]

Strength training on a RipRow?

Hi Lee I am a female rider on the wrong side of 40 with total hip replacement and an arthritic left shoulder just rediscovering the trails again. I have discovered some massive imbalances and what let’s me down is not cardio ( easy to improve) but strength, mobility and skill- I’m looking at the RipRow […]

Formula for sweet drops

Hey Lee, I enjoy reading through all of your articles on your site, I have a question though that I have yet to find an answer to. Is there a formula or proper way to figure how many feet away “y” the landing should be from the end of a man made drop that is […]

Ellipses of Love

If you’ve been reading this site, you’ve heard me talking about rowing and anti-rowing and how, when you do a good job, your handlebars follow an elliptical path. Basically, the taller the shape and the more leg action there is, the taller the ellipse. The flatter the shape and the less leg action there is, […]

Flying with a Trust fork

Hey Lee, Have you ever flown with a trust fork?  Looking at it, it doesn’t look like it would fit into my bike bag so would complicate things for my trips to the mountains.  Any experience/ideas for plane travel with them? Paul