Whoa, wait a minute! KOPS (= Knee Over Pedal Spindle) is a good place to start a fitting, in the absence of any other general rule, but (as GK Chesterton said, paraphrasing) laws are made to be broken.
I prefer this: http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/fitting.htm And this (Sheldon and K Bontrager): http://sheldonbrown.com/kops.html Long ago, with my first "good" bike -- a 1989 toute 531C Falcon with Sante -- I made the horrible mistake of taking KOPS as dogma and, chasing KOPS with a penchant for a high saddle and with an Asian build (short femors) ended up with the travesty of a mtb seatpost (stock not long enough) with saddle *all the way forward* to the point where it slipped *forward* (blue Loctite needed to keep saddle tilted right) and a 140 mm stem extension. Ask me how this bike handled on fast, curving descents in gusty weather. I'd skip the rear wheel while standing on hills. Grant cured me of this affliction circa 1994 when he told me, get your saddle back and your bar up and back.It has been good ever since Get the seatpost you need to get your saddle in the right fore-aft position for the correct relationship with the pedals.THEN get the right stem to get the bar where you need it. Amen and over and out. Patrick "preaching the gospel of saddle adjustment FIRST" Moore in ABQ, NM On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:06 PM, hangtownmatt <hangtownm...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Your knees should be over the pedal spindle at 3:00. > > On Saturday, August 24, 2013 12:34:46 PM UTC-7, Kellie Stapleton wrote: >> >> Am I doing something wrong? I have a Brooks B17 and I'd like to slide it >> further back but the rails of the saddle narrow. It won't slide any further >> and right now my knees are directly above the pedal. Seems >> strange.........saddle post the Kalloy that use to come with Rivendell >> build kits. >> > -- > 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- *RESUMES THAT GET YOU NOTICED!* Certified Resume Writer http://resumespecialties.com/index.html patrickmo...@resumespecialties.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Albuquerque, NM -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
