Lower your saddle and/or take no thought about it. Take a look at your "average" European cyclist you see in the streets... the people for whom cycling is simple a part of everyday living. The men and women who ride in everything business suits and loafers to full dresses and high heels. What I see is no one adhering to any such subjective "rule" about saddle height and leg bend angle and all the techno mumbo jumbo that really has no basis in truth because if it did, everyone who didn't adhere to it would "suffer the dire consequences" that "saddle position theories" claims will happen if you don't worship it. Tell that to grandma in Amsterdam who's been riding here whole life her saddle is too low, that she can ride better/faster/stronger ... that what she's doing is "wrong" and can be "improved", and see how that goes !
On Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 4:21:53 PM UTC-5, Marty Gierke, Stewartstown PA wrote: > > Literally. I want to be able to put my foot down from my "in the saddle" > position and not have to lean over at all, or maybe just a little, and not > have to do a full ballerina pointe. Like many of you I'm guessing, I have > an ancient echo in my head that tells my how my leg should be only slightly > bent while in the saddle, or that if I pedal backwards with the ball of my > foot on the pedal my hips should not rock. I've taken for granted that when > I set the saddle height to accomplish both of those, it comes at the > expense of putting my foot down (quickly and easily) at a stop sign or > unexpected roadside beer tent. I presume the echo is residue from some > racer-oriented mag I once read. It's high time I release the un-racer in me > and embrace the low-down. > > So how do you do it? How bent is your knee at 6 o'clock? Can you put your > foot down? > > Marty > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
