"You can be aerodynamic or you can be comfortable, but you can't be both." 

It's one of the great cycling debates, do we go for a bike fit that's aerodynamic and improves performance or a bike fit that's more comfortable? After watching twenty-one stages of the Tour de France each year, you can't blame a cyclist for wanting to get into the garage and start tinkering away with different adjustments to their set up. I mean, if it's good for Tadej and Wout then surely it's good for you, right? 

We were lucky enough to catch up with a bit of a legend of WA cycling, Gary Suckling to talk all things bike fit. If you've ever been to his North Perth office, you feel like you're really taking a trip down memory lane with all the memorabilia and personal photographs on the wall. I pull the bike out of the car and Gary looks at my bike, then looks me up and down... "let me guess" Gary says, "you're always repositioning your hands and sliding your bum back in the saddle?" I nod in amazement, "how tall are you? About 170?" (he's robbed me of 2cm but I'll forgive him). "Yeah... this bike is the perfect size for you" he says and then proceeds to take a few measurements, hook my bike up to the trainer and we start to have a chat. Gary is a genuine, nice guy and whilst his methods are a bit old school, you don't have to chat to him for too long to realise he's been around a while and know's a thing or two about a thing or two.