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Get comfortable, get fitter, and keep riding for decades

Bike fit, training and strength for riders 35 and over — joined up for once, by a bike fitter who has done it for thousands of riders. It starts with a free 15-minute call.

Book my free 15-minute call No charge, no hard sell. You leave with a 4-week plan either way.
Fitting since 2014 · Edinburgh Thousands of riders fitted 90-day guarantee on membership

You've had a fit. You've got a plan. They've never met.

Most riders over 35 are doing one of two things. Training hard on a position that was never quite right — so every block ends in a sore back, numb hands or a saddle you can't sit on. Or they've had a good fit, gone home, and trained in a way that slowly undoes it.

Nobody looks at the two together. That's the whole gap.

Fifteen minutes with me and you'll know which one is costing you — and what to do about it this week.

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Sound familiar?

If every ride ends sore, you're not alone

You've still got the legs. It's the rest of you that complains — and the plan you're following doesn't know that.

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Saddle sore, numb hands, or a back that locks up after an hour.

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You've got a training plan — generic, off the internet — and no idea if it's right for you.

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You've had a fit, or watched all the videos, and it still doesn't quite hold.

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Stretching off YouTube didn't stick. Forty moves is too many to do.

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You're fitter than most people your age and still getting dropped on the climbs.

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You're starting to wonder how many more years you've got of this.

It's not your age, and it's not your legs.It's that position, training and strength have never been looked at together. That's fixable.
photo: Dougie in the studio
Meet your fitter

Dougie Shaw

I've run Edinburgh Bike Fitting at 81 Leith Walk since 2014. Club racers, commuters, folk who just want to do the Sunday loop without a sore neck — thousands of them, on the jig, one at a time.

The same thing kept happening. A rider gets a good position, then goes home to a training plan that fights it. Or trains hard for months on a position that was never right. So I built The Bunch to do the thing a studio can't: look after your fit, your training and your strength together, week after week, wherever you ride.

2014Fitting riders in Edinburgh since
1000sof riders fitted at 81 Leith Walk
7 daysPosition review turnaround for members
90 daysMore comfortable, fitter, stronger — or you don't pay
How the call works

Fifteen minutes, three parts

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    Before — two minutes of homework

    When you book you'll get a short form: what you ride, what you're training for, what hurts, and a side-on photo or clip of you on the bike if you have one.

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    On the call — we tie it together

    Fit, training and goals get treated as three separate problems. They're not. We look at all three at once and work out which one is actually costing you comfort, speed or both.

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    After — a plan, and a way in

    You get a free 4-week training plan built around your hours, plus one clear next step on your position. If you want me alongside you after that, I'll show you how The Bunch works. If not, the plan's still yours.

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Inside The Bunch

Here's what membership gets you

Information is free — the courses are open to everyone. Membership is the implementation: my eyes on your position, a plan built for you, and a group that keeps you honest.

What changes

Here's what happens when you join

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Day 14: noticeably more comfortable on the bike, and starting to feel the plan in your legs.

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You stop guessing. Every change to your position is explained and checked, not left to luck.

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Your training and your fit finally pull in the same direction — the plan makes the position hold, the position makes the plan easier.

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About five hours a week, all in. Built for people with a job and a family, not for pros.

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Strength work that's actually for cyclists over 35 — the stuff that keeps you riding at 60 and 70.

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A group of riders your age, with your problems, on the same calls. Nobody's showing off.

Doors open 5 January 2027

Start learning now, join when you're ready

Every tier starts the same way — with the free 15-minute call. Founding members lock in $69 a month for as long as they stay; from 1 February 2027 it's $97.

Free

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Community member

  • All three courses, in full
  • Generic 4-week starter plans
  • Monthly community Zwift ride + Q&A
  • Position review for the first 50 free members
  • No personal plan or reviews
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Founding price

The Bunch

$69$97/ month

Locked for life for members who join before 1 Feb 2027

  • Video position review within 7 days
  • TrainingPeaks plan for your goal & hours
  • Movement screen + flexibility direction
  • Group call every two weeks
  • Members-only courses + review library
  • 90-day guarantee
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Elite

$299/ month

12-week minimum · 20 places

  • Everything in The Bunch
  • 1-hour 1:1 fit call on joining (same as a studio fit, remote)
  • Further 1:1 fit call every two months
  • Weekly Elite group call
  • Monthly 1-hour 1:1 coaching call
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VIP

$500/ month

or $5,000 a year · 5 places · by application

  • Everything in Elite
  • Monthly 1:1 fit call with Dougie
  • 1:1 training plan support
  • Always Dougie, never a stand-in
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The 90-day guarantee

Do the work — send your position video in week one, log your sessions, do the movement screen and the 10-day playbook, and turn up to the calls or watch the replays — and if you're not more comfortable, fitter and stronger on the bike after 90 days, you don't pay. Full terms on the call and in the community.

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The free 10-minute routine

Six to eight moves, nothing to buy, done before your coffee's cold. The ten minutes a day that fixes most of what I see go wrong on the jig: stiff hips, a locked-up thoracic spine, hamstrings that won't let the pelvis sit where it should.

A one-page PDF and a follow-along video, then a few short emails on how fit and training work together.

Unsubscribe whenever. I'm not going to sell your address — I've enough on.

Frequently asked questions

Is the call really free? What's the catch?

It's free, and the catch is that I'll tell you about The Bunch at the end if I think it would help you. If it wouldn't, I'll say so. Either way you leave with a 4-week plan and a clear next step on your position.

Do I need to have had a bike fit already?

No. Some riders come with a studio fit that's drifted, some have never been fitted. Send a side-on clip of you riding and I'll start from wherever you are.

I'm not in the UK. Does that matter?

Not at all — the calls are on Google Meet and the reviews are video. Group calls are at 7pm UK, which is 2pm Eastern, and every call is recorded if you can't make it live.

How much time does it take each week?

About five hours, all in — riding, strength and the mobility work. It's built for people with a job and a family, not for full-time athletes.

How does the guarantee work?

Do the four things that make it work — position video in week one, four of every five sessions logged, the movement screen and 10-day playbook done, and five of every six group calls attended live or on replay — and if you're not more comfortable, fitter and stronger after 90 days, you get your money back.

What if I just want the free stuff?

Take it. The three courses are free in the community and the first 50 free members get a position review as well. If you later want me alongside you, you know where I am.

Fifteen minutes. Then you'll know.

Your fit, your training and your goals, looked at together. Free, on Google Meet, and you keep the plan whatever you decide.

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