Inside knee pain?

[nick s]

So i recently bought a proper road bike and moved to clipless pedals, but after a few hard rides in a week, i'm finding that the inside of my right knee is in a bit of pain.
I do a lot of running aswell, but don't think it can be that as i've never had it before i started cycling.
My cleats have been set to neutral, but i'm thinking maybe my right foot needs adjusting as when i run on a treadmill it does seem to pronate a bit. Could that be the cause of inner knee pain though? Is there anything else i may be doing wrong, or that may not be set up properly that could be causing it?

[Janosh]

Most likely the cleat position as you have stated...

I suffer from the same problem and have been making very small adjustments to the cleat position and it's slowly getting there!

Apparently stretching before / after rides helps as well

[HardWorkers]

Inside knee pain = foot needs to move in a little (cleat out a little).

[AyBee]

Sorry, slight thread hijack - do people tend to try to get the cleats to match, i.e. same position on the shoe left and right? I recently played around with my cleats because I felt like my left leg was doing more work but then ended up injuring the right knee so have loosened off the bind for now and adjusted slightly and seems to be fine for now. Will wait for the knee to recover before seeing whether it feels right now.

[Robsti]

AyBee said:

Sorry, slight thread hijack - do people tend to try to get the cleats to match, i.e. same position on the shoe left and right? I recently played around with my cleats because I felt like my left leg was doing more work but then ended up injuring the right knee so have loosened off the bind for now and adjusted slightly and seems to be fine for now. Will wait for the knee to recover before seeing whether it feels right now.

Sit on a table and let your legs hang freely,this will give you an idea what position your feet should be in relation to the cleets!

[AyBee]

Robsti said:

AyBee said:

Sorry, slight thread hijack - do people tend to try to get the cleats to match, i.e. same position on the shoe left and right? I recently played around with my cleats because I felt like my left leg was doing more work but then ended up injuring the right knee so have loosened off the bind for now and adjusted slightly and seems to be fine for now. Will wait for the knee to recover before seeing whether it feels right now.

Sit on a table and let your legs hang freely,this will give you an idea what position your feet should be in relation to the cleets!

Left leg is fine so I have copied as accurately as possible, this to the right shoe (hence my question)...feels better but since I managed to knacker my knee in the adjusting process, it'll be a little while until I can properly tell

[Gizmo!]

AyBee said:

Sorry, slight thread hijack - do people tend to try to get the cleats to match, i.e. same position on the shoe left and right? I recently played around with my cleats because I felt like my left leg was doing more work but then ended up injuring the right knee so have loosened off the bind for now and adjusted slightly and seems to be fine for now. Will wait for the knee to recover before seeing whether it feels right now.

For some reason my right foot pronates much more than my left - and when I walk my left leg goes roughly straight forward and back and my right leg goes around it in arcs.

So no: you're not necessarily symmetrical

[AyBee]

Gizmo! said:

AyBee said:

Sorry, slight thread hijack - do people tend to try to get the cleats to match, i.e. same position on the shoe left and right? I recently played around with my cleats because I felt like my left leg was doing more work but then ended up injuring the right knee so have loosened off the bind for now and adjusted slightly and seems to be fine for now. Will wait for the knee to recover before seeing whether it feels right now.

For some reason my right foot pronates much more than my left - and when I walk my left leg goes roughly straight forward and back and my right leg goes around it in arcs.

So no: you're not necessarily symmetrical

I may be the same which would explain why reducing the float hurt my knee...I was riding on a track bike at the time though, not the best time to play around with your cleats

[crisisjez]

If you are riding that seriously spend the £200.00 on a bike fit. Apart from solving problems like the one you have it will vastly improve your comfort and efficiency.