Saddle issue solved for me???

[emily_in_nc]

One leg longer than the other -- another thing that's possible, I suppose. I wonder how to know?

Karen,

Check out this link for some info!

Good luck!

Emily, who has a slight leg-length discrepancy herself after a pelvic fracture last year

[Triskeliongirl]

I have a 3 cm LLD, so I know a LOT about this. One of the easiest ways to tell, is do a KOP measurement on both legs, and see if they are the same or different, also this only works if the LLD is in your upper leg/hip. You can also try to measure your knee angle at the bottom of the pedal stroke. Alterhatively, standing, measure the distance on each leg from the top of your pelvis to the ground. If its a small LLD, you can solve it with either a cleat shim, or pushing the cleat a little forward on the long leg and backward on the shrort leg. If its bigger, you need more extreme measures. I visited Tom Slocum at High Sierra Cycling who built me a custom crank set with a dropped pedal on my long leg side, that continuously adjusts my leg length throughout the pedal stroke. All this is dicussed in Lennard Zinn's Cycling Primer.