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How do you transfer your bike fit from one bike to another? A couple common problems people have are, 1) getting a new bike and it just doesn’t feel right, and 2) trying to figure out what size bike will fit them when shopping for a new bike.

I am constantly getting bikes in for review, building them up, riding them for a while and then sending them back. And many of you have asked how I set them up to fit the same.

So in this video, I’l explain my process.

I’ll explain two critical bike measurements: stack and reach.

And I’ll talk about things to watch out for when transferring your fit and when buying a gravel or road bike.

This video is supported by InGamba, with whom I am going to ride the length of Portugal - some 450 miles and 30,000 vertical feet - in three days on a trip led by Laurens Ten Dam and Ted King. Wanna come on this or another InGamba trip? Full info here: http://tinyurl.com/32c5xak3

Thanks to Avery Stumm of @alexeyandavery for shooting this one.

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0:00 intro
1:06 tools needed
2:05 not a fit!
2:36 stack & reach
3:43 two objectives
4:11 saddle height (stack)
5:14 saddle fore/aft (reach)
6:18 saddle swap
8:07 cockpit
8:44 InGamba
9:42 bar reach
10:05 bar stack
10:25 watch out!
12:07 what matters
13:05 summary