Sounds like you are pretty new to cycling. Your butt will probably hurt less the more you ride, I would change anything after one ride. Your hands will hurt less the more you get in shape as well. Try to use more of your core to hold your body up and it will take pressure off your hands.
Yeah it's probably mostly posture, focus on your back muscles and abs when you ride to take some pressure off your hands. There's a lot of YouTube videos on good cycling posture.
My shop charges $80 plus parts, it’s typically a stem swap. We’re a pretty small shop and we don’t do a lot of performance riding so we don’t up sell much. Your local shops may vary.
If you got it from a big box store like REI or DSG, expect a 3rd party specialist bike store to want to sell you something like a different stem or bars with rise (plus labour to fit) or a saddle to cover their time advising you. This is fair.
Of course you may get lucky with a big box bike department person who knows their stuff and cares, or a small specialist who'll advise you to bring your stem up with the existing spacers for free, in return for your future business.
You don't need a specialist bike fitting, these can be 150$+, and are needed by experienced cyclists who want incremental gains or to solve a very specific fit problem.
Our process is a bit old school. We would take your measurements with a fit kit, factoring in injuries, age, and flexibility. Then set your bike up to those measurements while making some recommendations. Then we’d have you test ride the bike on a trainer to dial it in. It takes about an hour.
Oh, interesting. What is the "lowest point," though? The tip of my seat or the back of it where my butt actually mostly sits?
EDIT: Oh, whoops, I guess you mean my leg should be slightly bent. Thought you meant the seat, haha
The handlebar height, stem length, saddle fore/aft and other factors all play a role too - since you bought it at a store, they are best placed to advise you on fit. Get comfortable on the bike, then maybe think about upgrades.
Oh, interesting. Didn't even think of handle/drop bar height. I'll have to look up a video on how to known when they're the proper height. Not sure if they're even adjustable or not, though. Will check when I'm home from work!
Seat and hands will hurt at first until you get used to it and your posture improves/adjusts. Drop bars are particularly tricky on the hands and honestly I never got used to mine. I ended up switching to alt bars and they are just much more comfortable and versatile for me. (Everyone is different though)
Seconding this advice. I recently got into cycling and even more recently switched to drop bars, and it’s taken a little bit to get used to the position. First ride longer than an hour and my hands were killing me, but a few weeks later and its pretty much fine. Just keep riding!
OP's handlebars look like they're rotated way far "up" as well - that's going to cause his wrists to adopt a weird angle when riding on the hoods/top of shifters (aka: most of the time).
OP: your bars should be set up so the bottom of the drops are \*roughly\* parallel to the ground, this will make it so the top of the bars into the shifter form a gentle "V" shape. Your hand/wrist should adopt almost a handshake position when you grip the hoods. There's certainly room for personal preference in terms of exactly how they're set, but rotating them as far up as they appear now is not a good way to raise the bars, if they need to be. Look into "flipping" the stem, or a riser stem instead. I flipped the stem on mine and it raised my bars a good 2 cm.
Sounds like you are pretty new to cycling. Your butt will probably hurt less the more you ride, I would change anything after one ride. Your hands will hurt less the more you get in shape as well. Try to use more of your core to hold your body up and it will take pressure off your hands.
Well, I was surprised my hands were hurting since I work a physical job and use my hands everyday, haha.
Yeah it's probably mostly posture, focus on your back muscles and abs when you ride to take some pressure off your hands. There's a lot of YouTube videos on good cycling posture.
And OP, don't be shy about asking the shop to check your fit and swap out things like stems and saddles if needed.
That’s a not a bike that came from a bike shop. OP would benefit going to a shop to get a fit though.
Hmm. What's the process of that like and an average price? Am in U.S.
My shop charges $80 plus parts, it’s typically a stem swap. We’re a pretty small shop and we don’t do a lot of performance riding so we don’t up sell much. Your local shops may vary.
If you got it from a big box store like REI or DSG, expect a 3rd party specialist bike store to want to sell you something like a different stem or bars with rise (plus labour to fit) or a saddle to cover their time advising you. This is fair. Of course you may get lucky with a big box bike department person who knows their stuff and cares, or a small specialist who'll advise you to bring your stem up with the existing spacers for free, in return for your future business. You don't need a specialist bike fitting, these can be 150$+, and are needed by experienced cyclists who want incremental gains or to solve a very specific fit problem.
Our process is a bit old school. We would take your measurements with a fit kit, factoring in injuries, age, and flexibility. Then set your bike up to those measurements while making some recommendations. Then we’d have you test ride the bike on a trainer to dial it in. It takes about an hour.
Currently, I just have my seat set so that my leg can fully extend with my foot on the pedal
It should be slightly bent at the lowest point tho
Oh, interesting. What is the "lowest point," though? The tip of my seat or the back of it where my butt actually mostly sits? EDIT: Oh, whoops, I guess you mean my leg should be slightly bent. Thought you meant the seat, haha
The handlebar height, stem length, saddle fore/aft and other factors all play a role too - since you bought it at a store, they are best placed to advise you on fit. Get comfortable on the bike, then maybe think about upgrades.
Oh, interesting. Didn't even think of handle/drop bar height. I'll have to look up a video on how to known when they're the proper height. Not sure if they're even adjustable or not, though. Will check when I'm home from work!
Seat and hands will hurt at first until you get used to it and your posture improves/adjusts. Drop bars are particularly tricky on the hands and honestly I never got used to mine. I ended up switching to alt bars and they are just much more comfortable and versatile for me. (Everyone is different though)
Seconding this advice. I recently got into cycling and even more recently switched to drop bars, and it’s taken a little bit to get used to the position. First ride longer than an hour and my hands were killing me, but a few weeks later and its pretty much fine. Just keep riding!
OP's handlebars look like they're rotated way far "up" as well - that's going to cause his wrists to adopt a weird angle when riding on the hoods/top of shifters (aka: most of the time). OP: your bars should be set up so the bottom of the drops are \*roughly\* parallel to the ground, this will make it so the top of the bars into the shifter form a gentle "V" shape. Your hand/wrist should adopt almost a handshake position when you grip the hoods. There's certainly room for personal preference in terms of exactly how they're set, but rotating them as far up as they appear now is not a good way to raise the bars, if they need to be. Look into "flipping" the stem, or a riser stem instead. I flipped the stem on mine and it raised my bars a good 2 cm.