What is Retül Fit?
The purpose of a Retül Fit is to make you more comfortable and more efficient on your bike - ultimately meaning you can ride faster and for longer!
Our purpose-built Retül Fit studio, at Marathon Bikes, offers a dedicated space for a relaxed fit experience - all the technology and tools needed for a fit session are found here.
If you cycle regularly, you can benefit from our bespoke Bike Fit service. The concept of tuning your bike is popular with competitive cyclists, but our service is just as relevant if you enjoy hitting the trails on your mountain bike, commuting to work or touring the countryside.
What is included in a Retül Bike Fit session?
4 Steps to your perfect fit
During the two-to-three-hour session, we focus on the unique connection between your body and the bike. We'll adjust your bike to make it fit you as an individual. Following a fit you will be able to ride faster, further, more comfortably and much more efficiently.
Step 1 – Interview
Your fitter will talk to you about your riding experience, goals, injury history and any other relevant questions to understand your needs as a rider.
Step 2 - Physical Assessment
Our fit expert will then conduct a number of tests to build a picture of your muscular/skeletal strength and flexibility. This comprehensive 18-step process is crucial to understanding ride position and supporting equipment.
Step 3 - Fitting
The fitter will be able to adjust a number of positions while you ride your Bike, such as saddle height, saddle fore/aft position, stem length (reach), and stem height (drop).
In the end your saddle selection and position, shoes, footbeds, cleat position, and handlebar position will all be optimized to suit the demands of your body. To determine your perfect saddle, we use tools like our saddle width measuring device, to precisely assess your sit bone width.
Your bike measurements then ensure the fitter has a precise set of data to perfect the position of your bike. These adjustments can be made quickly by the fitter; in the time it takes you to browse our store or have a coffee, your new bespoke fitting bike will be ready.
Step 4 - Follow Up
At the conclusion of the process, our fitter will schedule a four-to-six-week follow-up call to review your adaptation to the new position, answer your questions, and provide guidance on how to get the most out of your ride.
Immediately after the fit you will also receive a detailed PDF report document by email. This report contains all the exact zin measurements we have recorded in the process, as well as data about your goals, physical evaluation and photos of your riding position. Scribbled down bike measurements on a piece of paper are a thing of the past.