Knee pain and saddle position

[Catrin]

Did your LBS adjust your cleats to this bike? I know that you are saving money for a fitting, but perhaps they would be willing to take a look at it and not charge much?

It sounds like the pain I had when I was relegated to using toe cages after return to spinning class awhile back after my injury. I had terrible sharp pains from time to time from my left knee from those da*n things. Thankfully I can, now, clip in for spinning, but your pain sounds like that. Wondering if your current cleat adjustment has your left knee just slightly off.