Now I just feel silly...

[Pascale]

The biking expert guy Steve HOGG in Australia says the opposite!
here's his article:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/fitness/?...ers07-26#Cleat

This is what I took out of that article...

4. Cleat too far forward. As a guide, for your shoe size, I would position the cleat so that the centre of the ball of the foot is 9mm in front of the centre of the pedal axle. If the position of the cleat is the problem, this is likely to solve the problem.

If the cleat is in the centre of the ball of your foot, then that's where the people at the LBS's were telling me - they were telling me to get off my arches. Or am I completely confused? Veterans, can ya help?

[matagi]

This is what I took out of that article...

4. Cleat too far forward. As a guide, for your shoe size, I would position the cleat so that the centre of the ball of the foot is 9mm in front of the centre of the pedal axle. If the position of the cleat is the problem, this is likely to solve the problem.

If the cleat is in the centre of the ball of your foot, then that's where the people at the LBS's were telling me - they were telling me to get off my arches. Or am I completely confused? Veterans, can ya help?

The cleat should be positioned very slightly behind the centre of the ball of the foot (9mm is less than 1/2 inch), so that the back half of the ball of your foot is taking most of the pressure.

Also, sore knees are not good - your knees should not hurt after riding. I guess if you have been pedalling on your arches, that could be the cause of the problem, other possibilities are - your seat position is wrong, or you are pedalling in too high a gear (mashing).

First thing to do is get your foot position right on the pedals, then if the knee pain is still there, look at other parameters.

The tail bone pain has me a bit puzzled .... have you had a previous injury to your tailbone?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

When I rode 10 miles on a borrowed bike a couple weeks ago, it was a bike that was too small for me, even with the saddle raised up. One thing I noticed after the ride was that my knees hurt for the first time ever.

[Pascale]

The tail bone pain has me a bit puzzled .... have you had a previous injury to your tailbone?

Quite possibly - I've fallen off enough horses - I have a difficult time sitting for long periods of time in most kinds of chairs unless I can pull one leg up and sit on it (I'm so short that my legs don't reach the ground on most chairs, so that's usually the only way I'm comfortable). Also, since this is a comfort bike, I'm sitting nearly straight up, so maybe that's part of the problem on the tail bone issue. I don't recall any specific injuries, but I only remember the big ones, LOL!

[MomOnBike]

I know for certain that you'd remember breaking a tailbone. That HURTS!

There's no way to cast it, either, so you just suffer for the rest of your life.

(You don't need to ask how I know.)