Another thing about fitting advice is this small piece of it: be wary of large changes.
3 cm is a lot, whether you are going up or down. If you were to lower your saddle sufficiently, you'd start to incur patellar pain. This is one sign it's too low. And if you don't find patellar pain early in a ride and you find it later, it's still too low, it's just not so drastically too low. Be careful, and don't hurt your knees. There is a sweet spot between knee pain and excessive pelvis rocking. Once you get it, measure it, mark it, or whatever, but be sure you can reproduce it. And as you say, I believe this just common sense. Maybe it's the max power point, or maybe it's not. But as a Rivvy, toury, let's-go-62-miles-just-for-an-afternoon's-fun kind of rider, it won't be tolerable to cause knee pain or damage, nor will it be tolerable to cause chafing sores on your you know whats due to rocking. But will it be acceptable to pedal at 3% more effort than your max? Yeah, probably it will. That kind of logic probably goes back to the penny farthings! On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Brian Hanson <stone...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK - I just did this sizing exercise by pedaling backwards in the garage, > and dropped my seat about 3cm (!!) before my hips stopped bobbing. This > will be an interesting experiment in fit. My legs have been a bit on the > sore side as of late. > > That's what I love about fitting advice - very subjective. If this works > for me, it will be cool to get new insight from something written in 1939. > I suppose they had already fairly well developed common sense fit > techniques after many decades of competitive and distance riding. > > Brian (going on 5th iteration of Hilsen) > Seattle > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- Ken Freeman Ann Arbor, MI USA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
