A NEW DAWN IN BIKE FIT EDUCATION
As part of its continued efforts to improve bike fitting, the IBFI has joined forces with fit educators around the world to create a common education standard to help professionalise the industry. IBFI President Andy Brooke explains the exciting changes, and what they’ll mean for IBFI members.
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here are some big changes
they start? Who offered the best courses?
coming in the world of bike fitting
How many courses would they need to do to
education. Over the next few pages,
become a good fitter?
we’re going to run you through what we
As an industry, we stagnated. Fitters found it
consider to be the biggest step towards
easy to reach a moderately competent level
professionalising bike fitting that we’ve ever
but very difficult to progress any further. No
undertaken. And it wouldn’t have been
matter who they started training with, there
possible with the support of a great
were rarely more than 6-8 days of
group of bike fit educators, but
training available across multiple
more about them later.
courses, and if they wanted to then
switch to another provider, they were First, a little background
forced to go back to their very first
Before the IBFI was established back in 2015, there was no parity between bike fitting education courses, and very little trust between education providers. That created a very difficult environment for new and early-career fitters. Where should
course. This meant there was a huge financial disincentive to continue learning. Once a fitter had done a few courses, the return on investment to go back and work through the different levels of courses with a new provider was virtually nothing – a lot of money spent on course
