Originally Posted by
Iride01
Pedaling should be easy. Shift to a lower gear. If you have gotten used to putting a lot of muscle into pedaling, then you might be blowing your knees to all to heck.
Once your knees get to feeling better, get your seat back down to where is should be. To guess at a place to start, sit on your saddle as best you can and put the heel of your shoe (with your foot in the shoe) on the pedal and put it in the furthest locataion from you. If you don't have a very slight bend at your kneee then lower or raise your saddle till you do.
Go for a ride. It will feel stupid, but stay in a gear that is low (easy) enough to pedal with no effort what so ever. If you ever feel like you are using any leg muscle, then shift to an easier gear. After you've ridden for a time, how do your knees feel?
If they don't bother you, then keep using the easy gears to pedal in till it doesn't feel stupid anymore. After that you can graduate to using a little muscle and harder gears briefly as you accelerate rapidly.
Whether your knees actually have some issue that need a medical professional to look at is on you. So consider if you need to go to one.
So that's the issue actually. When the seat is where it should be, it's extremely uncomfortable due to my constant need to fully extend my legs. I can't possibly ride in that position. I'm hoping someone has had to deal with this or a similar issue or found a way to deal with it... For example, even when I'm just driving my car, every few minutes, I need to take my foot off the gas for a second, fully extend, and then put it back, definitely not as often as when I do when I'm cycling... As for the use of muscle when I'm riding, I should have been more specific. I use muscle when I'm climbing. When it's just normal flat riding, it's super easy... Perhaps the hills aren't such a great idea though if I need to put muscle into it?