Everything you need to know about Pedalyze before your first analysis.
You upload side-on photos of yourself on your bike. Pose detection finds your joints — no stickers or markers needed — then Pedalyze measures your joint angles, compares them with our target ranges, and gives each one a pass, warn or fail verdict with concrete adjustment tips. The whole process takes under a minute.
At the 6 o'clock pedal position: knee flexion, hip angle, torso angle, elbow angle and shoulder angle. At the 3 o'clock position: KOPS offset (knee over pedal spindle), plus torso and elbow angles.
No. A phone camera and something to keep the bike steady — a trainer, or a friend taking the photo — is all you need. You ride in your normal kit; no markers or stickers.
Yes. Turn on the public link toggle on any report to get a URL you can send to a professional bike fitter, coach or physio. They can open it and see your photos and angle breakdown without needing a Pedalyze account. You can turn the link off again at any time.
MyVeloFit takes about 15 seconds of trainer video, includes a mobility test and sells a review by a professional fitter. Pedalyze takes two photos or a clip, shows every angle next to its target and tolerated range, keeps the clip in your browser, and charges €29 once for 30 days instead of $35 for two weeks or $75 a year. Neither has published an accuracy validation. Read the full comparison. →
Place the camera at hip / top-tube height, at 90° directly from the side, and keep it level. Wear tight-fitting kit or dark clothing against a light background, and put the pedal at 6 o'clock (bottom of the stroke). The in-app checklist and alignment guide walk you through it.
Pedalyze checks every photo before it measures anything. If the camera is off-axis, tilted more than about 4°, the rider is cropped, or joints are hard to see, the photo is rejected instead of silently measured wrong. The report tells you exactly what to fix before you retake it.
Pedalyze has not been validated against a goniometer yet. The knee-flexion target is based on Holmes, Pruitt and Whalen (1994); the other ranges are our own reading of published guidance. A photo more than about 4° off level is rejected, and a joint the model is not sure about is shown but not judged. KOPS uses your ankle as a pedal-spindle proxy, so it reads slightly rearward of a true plumb line.
No. It is a first check for the common issues: saddle height, reach, bar drop. If you have pain that lasts after rides, an injury, a clear difference between your left and right legs, or you race at a high level, see a professional bike fitter or a physio. You can share your report with them.
Knee flexion is the one range with a clear published source: Holmes, Pruitt & Whalen, "Lower Extremity Overuse in Bicycling" (Clinics in Sports Medicine, 1994) recommends 25–30° of knee flexion at the bottom of the stroke; we use 25–35° for road because a single 2D photo cannot resolve a few degrees of ankle movement. KOPS is a fitting convention with no biomechanical law behind it — we keep it because it is reproducible, and we flag that we use the ankle as a spindle proxy. The hip, torso, elbow and shoulder bands, and the comfort and TT profiles, are our own reading of widely published road, comfort and TT fit guidance rather than any one certified protocol. We are independent: no affiliation with, or endorsement by, Retül, Steve Hogg, BikeFit or any fitting school. Every range is plain data in the open source file reference_ranges.yaml, so you can read the exact numbers we judge you against.
Three fit styles: road/endurance, comfort/upright and TT/triathlon. You pick one before the analysis, and Pedalyze compares your angles with the target ranges for that style. Photos and clips must be taken side-on.
Yes. You get 1 report every 7 days with the full angle overlay and pass/warn/fail results, with no credit card. The €29 Fit Session pass is one payment for 30 days of unlimited saved analyses, comparisons over time and PDF export. There is nothing to cancel. See pricing. →
No. The Fit Session pass is a one-time payment — there is nothing to cancel, it simply ends after 30 days.
Your photos are stored securely in cloud storage tied to your account, and your analysis results are saved to your history so you can track changes over time. You can delete your analyses at any time. Read the Privacy Policy. →
No. The video check runs in your browser, and the clip never leaves your device. Only the measurements are saved, and only if you save them. Photos are different: they are stored with your account so you can compare over time. A report run without an account is deleted after 7 days if nobody claims it.
We use cookies for analytics to understand how visitors use Pedalyze. You can accept or decline. Privacy Policy
