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Evelyn Stevens comes to cycling from an interesting background.
She's really new to the sport, she's only been riding about two years.
It's an unorthodox background in cycling,
worked in finance and found the sport a little bit later
and then came on HTC last year.
She had a real meteoric rise to the professional level
of women's cycling over a two year period
and was top ten in her first world championships.
She was a very small stature person, but in spite of that
she had wide pelvic measurement,
ischial tuberosities or sit bones are farther apart than you might expect
by looking at her.
You could really tell they looked at it in a very scientific way
and took into account me as a rider.
And they think I might have a leg discrepancy
which I had no idea about so they really paid attention to that.
And looked at why you sit the way you sit
and adjusting it so it makes it more even.
So the biggest changes made on the bike
from her pre-fit assessment were saddle choice,
which was a wide 155 sit bone width
with a wider stance width on the bicycle.
It made significant changes in how she squared up on the bike,
and her delivery of power.
I had Andy Pruitt fit me, which I know he's one of the best,
if not the best, one of the best fitters out there.
Her major complaint, especially as a relatively new cyclist,
was saddle discomfort.
If you think about things that keep women off bicycles,
there's two, one is saddle discomfort and the other is handlebar placement.
And they'd done a fairly good job
of finding her handlebar placement before,
but they had not done a good job
of really researching all the different opportunities
for saddle choices for her.
So I think we've solved her saddle discomfort
and her handlebar position.
After he processed my road bike, it was great.