Or possibly my position was fine to start with and the problem was my legs. :)
Jay On Apr 20, 7:23 pm, Jay in Tel Aviv <jayin...@gmail.com> wrote: > It doesn't rain here from April through at least October, so today the > fenders came off my Sam and I took it for a ride in the hills for a > very decadent lunch with some friends in their yard. I was in France > last week with my wife, so she took the kids and lots of leftover > cheese in the car. Good time. > > Anyway, the Sam is set up my commute, which is a pretty flat 15 mile > round trip. I've been putting my saddle a little farther forward then > usual lately and cutting a few minutes of the ride, noticeably faster > and quite comfortable. This ride was in the hills, about 20 miles each > way, and I found that I didn't like the forward position on the ups. > So I put the saddle back a bit, which was much better, but slower back > on the flats. Also, despite a lot of playing around with saddle tilt > etc I couldn't really get to a comfortable position. One thing I > thought about trying but didn't was to tilt the handlebars (Noodles) > toward me a bit. > > Does any of this conform with popular wisdom on saddle position? Is > there such a thing? I've been fooling around with this stuff for years > and haven't gotten it right yet. It would be great if someone could > list a few rules of thumb. > > Jay -- 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-bunch@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.
