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Mark Cavendish bike fit: 2011 vs 2014

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According to a recent CyclingNews article , Mark Cavendish downsized from a 52 cm to a 49 cm Specialized Venge this year. The article quotes Specialized Body Geometry fit manager Sean Madsen: "One thing about Cav is that he likes to periodically change his position around, based entirely on his feeling," Madsen said. "He may change it back in a couple of weeks, when his mood changes!" So did he change his position? Here's some BikeRadar/CyclingNews reviews of Cavendish bikes: 2011 2013 2014 I took the 2011 and 2014 side shots. Unfortunately these are from relatively different camera positions. To compensate, I did a combination of image scalings, rotations, and perspective transformations on the images to match the bottom bracket positions and the heights of the front and rear tires. This is 3 transformations for 3 constraints. It's not enough to fully match the photos, but it's a lot better than taking them unprocessed. I aligned the fro...