Hi @Kevin Thomas. You could try moving your saddle back, even just a tiny bit, to move more of your weight behind the bottom bracket. That will help to reduce weight on your hands, arms and shoulders.

Hi @Mike Leyh. Yes, handlebars that are too wide and/or a stem that is too long can create a lot of tension and fatigue in your upper back and neck muscles, especially your upper trapezius muscle. A good guide for choosing optimal handlebar width is measuring your shoulders from acromion process to acromion process (the bony part on the outer edge of your shoulders) across the front of your body while standing with good posture, but not 'to attention'. Just make sure that when matching that to a handlebar width that the bars are measured centre to centre. The manufacturer's website or product information should say how they measure. If your stem is too long it can result in you projecting your shoulders forward and possibly up around your ears. Often people will have straight arms with locked out elbows as well, but not always. They may retain some bend at the elbow and all of the extra reach they try to create will come from the shoulders. Note that excessive weight on your hands, that is, your centre of mass too far in front of the bottom bracket can also result in excessive engagement of the upper back and shoulders to support your torso. Additionally, saddle to bar drop can play a part, as can pelvic tilt and resulting curvature of the spine. If you can post videos from left and right side as well as front and rear it will be helpful.

Hi @Steve Knipping. I'm a bike fitter in Australia and while attempting to observe and assess via video is prone to many errors and shortcomings (that's why I don't do if for paying clients), I do have some feedback. In the video of your right side, your arms appear to be very straight with elbows fully extended and shoulders projected forward. Is that what you see or feel? That would suggest to me that the reach to your hoods is excessive. You are sitting quite upright though. If that is how you normally sit then I'd suggest trying a shorter stem or, if you pass the balance test to assess centre of mass relative to bottom bracket, maybe moving your saddle forward. If you normally sit with your pelvis tilted forward and torso lower and closer to the hoods, then what I'm seeing in your video may not be relevant. Also, while impossible to see clearly, you do appear to be sitting a long way back on the saddle. If that is the case then perhaps the reach to the hoods is fine, but the location of your pelvis on the saddle explains why you appear to be extending arms and shoulders to such an extent. Do you feel like your quads and hamstrings are contributing equally or is one muscle group dominating the majority of the pedal stroke? Do you feel your glutes working at all? With regard to the video from the rear, the camera is slightly to the right of the centreline of the bike. That introduces perspective error and makes it impossible to assess pelvis and lower back posture and knee tracking accurately. To my eyes it looks like your left knee is closer to the top tube than your right, but it could be the camera angle.

HI @Josh Hall. A long femur relative to tibia length can affect your bike fit. Have you had a professional limb length assessment? If so, what was observed? Are your left and right femurs the same length? Left and right tibias? Any overall leg length difference? When you've tried changes to saddle height have you adjusted saddle fore/aft to ensure that your centre of mass stays in the same position relative to the bottom bracket? Have you experimented with saddle fore/aft independent of changing the saddle height? When pedalling do you feel like your quads or your hamstrings are doing more work and is it a large difference in perceived effort? Have you checked your cleats to make sure they are in the same position and same angle on both shoes? If you're able to post videos from both sides and front and rear it would be helpful.

I'm a bike fitter in Australia and I agree with @Patri Som that in this video, your saddle looks to be too low. I will qualify anything I say here by adding that there's a reason I don't do video bike fits for remote clients. It is impossible to see everything you need to see in a single camera view. Even both sides, front and rear views can miss subtle things on camera and introduce perspective error when assessing angles and relative positions. I also cannot perform any physical assessments to see if there are reasons for some of the things I might see. There appears to be a lot of knee extension still available. That is, they appear to be significantly underextending. I haven't assessed you for hamstring flexibility though, so maybe the current extension is the limit of your range of motion on a bicycle? Your feet seem to be moving well with only moderate plantarflexion and reasonable ankling. Some people will drop their ankles noticeably if the saddle is too low, but you appear to be compensating well. You do appear to be sitting a long way forward on the saddle. There is a lot of it sticking out behind you and that makes me think that perhaps your reach is too long, but I can't see your shoulders to know whether they are up around your ears to try to create extra extension to reach the hoods. That said, your arms looks to be slightly bent as I would like to see so it's impossible to comment further on the reach. The fact that you are sitting so far forward on the saddle is probably resulting in pelvic instability. You are rocking on the saddle with a lot of lateral movement in your lumber/lower spine. In conjunction with other observations, that would invoke the holy trinity of quadricep fatigue. insufficient knee extension, centre of mass too far forward relative to bottom bracket, and insufficient skeletal support on the saddle. All three place a significant additional load on the quads. The unstable pelvis will require the quads to become stabilizers as well as power producers. Centre of mass to far forward will often subconsciously engage your quads more strongly to prevent you from tipping forward. Insufficient saddle height means your quads are never able to move through their optimal range of length for maximum power production.

Hi @Trevor Bouchard. The description of your right leg and the fact that you are leaning to the right with your saddle seemingly too low makes me think of the following posibilities: - Any challenge to pelvic stability, such as lack of skeletal support, will prompt a compensation. It may be that in your case the compensation is leaning to the right to instinctively protect the right leg. That usually results in some pelvic rotation with the right hip forward of the left, and the right leg consequently being angled in towards the top tube. If someone can stand close behind you while you ride and look down at your glutes and saddle it would be interesting to know if they can see whether you are sitting skewed with right hip forward. - With the saddle too low your hips may run out of range of motion at the top of the stroke as previously mentioned. In this case the compensation may manifest as the left hip lifting to accommodate the rising leg and your pelvis remaining tilted throughout the pedal stroke. This would make sense if you possess a greater amount of internal rotation in the right hip or, conversely, poor internal rotation in the left hip. There may also be an element of favouring the right side in this scenario as well. Most likely it's a combination of the two possibilities above. It will be interesting to see if it resolves when you raise the saddle, noting that sitting off to one side (usually the right) and the right leg projecting towards the top tube is also a classic symptom of a saddle that is too high. In this case it is definitely the body favouring and protecting the right leg. Before making any assumptions though it is useful to test for a few things: - Hip internal rotation test. Should be plenty of examples on the internet if you have a friend to assist you or if you see a physical therapist you should ask them to assess you. - Leg length test. Do a Google search for "supine leg length test" and if it tells you to lie on your back and have your knees at 90 degress with feet flat on the ground and ankles together, then you've probably got the right one. Again, you will need a friend to assist or ask a physical therapist. - Check cleat angles and fore/aft position on both shoes to make sure there are no unintended differences. Some people can pedal with a horrid setup and neither notice, nor exhibit much compensation. Others, like me, twitch and fidget with the slightest asymmetry. Having one cleat set at a different angle to the other can create issues with pedalling dynamics and knee tracking.