BIG INTERVIEW


SETTING THE STANDARD


Daniel Blackham sits down with Lee Prescott, interim president of the International Bike Fitting Institute, to discuss plans to showcase bike fitting to the cycling public, the importance of a global standard, and the next generation of bike fitters


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ast month, Lee Prescott assumed the position of interim president at the International Bike Fitting Institute (IBFI) following Andy Brooke’s


decision to step down from the role he had served in for more than a decade. Prescott is well-served to take on the challenge. With a background in industrial design and ergonomics, he has worked as a designer and consultant for countless global brands. Prescott has also been an accomplished framebuilder for almost four decades, where he developed his clinical fitting protocol. For the last 15 years he has run the successful Velo Atelier


Bicycle Studio in Warwick. He has also been the editor of International Bike Fitter magazine for the last three years and is a respected bikefit educator. Despite only being announced a handful of weeks ago, plans are already afoot to get the ball rolling on a range of initiatives at what is seen as a pivotal time for the IBFI. “Where we’re at the moment is, we were up to a good global membership but during and after Covid, a lot of people didn’t really reengage so we lost a little bit of membership,” explains Prescott. “So one of my big things is I need to get all the people


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