Kneesavers

Randy Ice PT, CCS is a cardiopulmonary physical therapist who began bike fitting services in 1987. With over 30 years of experience, he has fitted hundreds of men and women cyclists to make their cycling experience more comfortable. His vision led to the creation of Kneesavers pedal extenders, a solution to the limitations of fixed Q factor spacing on bicycles, especially road and recumbent bikes.

The Kneesavers products allow for different sized cyclists with differing biomechanical needs to have differing distances between the pedals while riding. This innovative approach has led to the development of (3) different Kneesavers widths, Kneesavers that fit both road and stationary bikes, Pedal Adapters that allow one to use their cycling pedals and shoes on spin trainers or stationary bikes, Titanium Kneesavers and custom made Kneesavers of any length and thread size as needed.

His expertise in this area has also led him into creating the world's most nutritionally complete energy drink/meal replacement (www. SPIZ.net) and the establishment of a bio-identical hormone replacement program in Temecula, California ( www. VintageMedicalGroup.com).

Our Services

Our mobile bike fitting program is designed to resolve your pain syndrome and/or optimize your power output where others have failed. Randy Ice PT, CCS travels all over Southern California to make the process easy for you. Call (760) 468-4718 for more information or an appointment.

The following "Principles of Bike Fitting: What Factors Make For An Optimal Fit" PowerPoint Presentation will take you through the process of achieving an optimal bike fit and the how to's of relieving/preventing cycling biomechanical pain syndromes. The little understood and discussed "Q Factor" as well as the development of Kneesavers is also presented.

Cycling Knee Injury Prevention

A cycling knee injury is a relatively rare phenomenon, but can occur due to faulty underlying biomechanics that cause an overuse syndrome. These include quadriceps or patellar tendonitis, ilial-tibial band syndrome and rarely hamstring tendonitis.

The perfect bike fit for an individual and his/her bike means the marriage of the two is also perfect. This means the various settings of seat height, saddle position, foot/cleat position, toe-in vs toe-out, stem height and/or stem length and Q factor distance must be optimized to the specific individual's unique biomechanics, geometry, flexibility and goals.

Foot pronation and/or supination is another often critical fitting factor that is often missed and best fixed by custom made cycling orthotics that are worn in one's everyday shoes as well as in their cycling shoes. Keeping the foot in a neutral position has tremendous benefits for knee function when riding.

The Q factor is an often overlooked factor in bike fitting that when ignored, is a major contributing factor to cycling knee injury. Lateral knee pain is very commonly related to a Q factor that is too narrow as is pain from the foot all the way up to the hip while riding in many cyclists. The Q factor specifically is the distance between the feet when placed on the pedals. Road bikes tend to have a narrower Q factor than mountain bikes due to a narrower bottom bracket. Recumbent cyclists often benefit from a wider Q factor due to the natural "knees out" position one's knees assume when in the sitting position.

When I began bike fitting in the mid-1980's it became apparent to me that there was need to move people's feet apart to a wider position on the pedals for all sorts of reasons including larger body size, larger feet, a toe out gait pattern, bow legged structure and various other biomechanical issues. Often times the problem is on one side only often due to an old fracture with healing of the foot in an outward bound position that the bike must be fixed to accommodate.