Originally Posted by Road Fan

Actually there are good reasons to consider more deeply - the new bike might be no better. Its fitter might be as clueless as most of us, and never read any of Steve Hogg's work, or others. Ultimately it's "Let teh Buyer Beware!"

I would bet most "fitters" really have not much experience, and will take every new customer back to the standardized fitting they are trained to provide, on the theory the now in pain customer will come back asking for "treatment:" a fix. Now Mr. New Fitter has an opportunity to experiment on the in-pain customer.

But I fervently hope fitters currently in practice have become better than that.