Oh, and I had a chance to try an Aliante but my sit bones are definitely too wide. I had to go way back on the saddle to get good purchase and then the padding bunched up into my taintway… nonstarter. Too bad because they are cool looking saddles.
have you tried lowering saddle and moving it back?
little makes a difference
i use a plumb bob at bb center and put a piece of tape on the top tube when i’m messing with setback
ruler plus book allow you to measure it easy
whenever i get a hot groin or numbness it’s almost always coz my saddle is high
Plotting stack/reack/seat angle on a selection of medsize and bigsize bieks
fucking 54s, how do they work
Anyone know of a Flite-esque saddle with more stack height?
Sadly I think I need the Brompton saddle a little higher and everything is maxed out.
Stock saddle has more than enough stack, so worst case I can put that back on.
also tons of dudes on bikes with lots of stack height. Y’all need to stop looking at only sprinters for fit advice.
Not everyone is Bom Toonen. Very few people are built like him. Look at us lanky fucks from south france or the basque country.
In running, the only truism about running form is that your running form is the most efficient when you stop trying to change it. Your body is pretty amazing in figuring out whats best for you.
This being said, some people are delightfully stubborn and insist riding their saddle too low or too high and then complain of the pain it causes their knees/anus.
The running thing was actually studied in a clinical trial.
Tall lanky Northern European crew with hella setback crew
Come run around the Lake with me and say that after you pass all the people with a cringe-worthy gait.
Come run around the Lake with me and say that after you pass all the people with a cringe-worthy gait.[/quote]
i’ve seen it, but those people have bad gait because they haven’t been running long enough to have adapted. When I played competitive tennis I had a bit of coaching on my running form because I dragged my feet. My running form got better when I stopped using running shoes. I was the kid who showed up to the winter training gym for crew in skate shoes.
I’m kind of a zealot, but I went from having bad shin splints just running a mile, to a 7 mile run one day in my SIDI shoes when I flatted in the middle of BFE with my CX bike with absolutely no pain. I ditched the asics and haven’t looked back since. Came in 12th in a 5k race that same summer with a hangover, broken wrist, and cracked pelvis on a set of dorky ass 5 fingers. The next year I went canyoneering in the same shoes. Everyone else was in 5.10 canyoneering boots. I just monkey styled it for like 26 miles that day.
Running shoes are bullshit, man.
Not really.
Foot strength is definitely a good thing o have if you’re doing a lot of volume, though and running shoes won’t give you that.
you ran 7 miles in Sidi cycling shoes? wtf.
seriously, my ankles would punch me in the dick 1/2 mile into that
Saddle blowing up one side of crotch-ass: possible leg length disparity? Cleat shims?
or just a muscle imbalance / pedal stoke problem
never shim one cleat until consulting an actual medical doctor who has consulted x-rays of your body.
never shim one cleat until consulting an actual medical doctor who has consulted x-rays of your body.[/quote]
you’d do better picking the short leg by flipping a coin than by feels
It’s a weird feeling. The saddle is an old Vetta that I like the shape of but is too firm. Here in PA it’s not really an issue since so much of my climbing is out of the saddle and the bits get a break. Rode it in the Outer Banks of NC last week and sat the whole time cos flat. Left sit bone region pretty grumpy. Right OK. Saddle isn’t on bike crooked or anything dumb like that, so I got to thinking about leg length causing me to pedal deeper on one side. But the saddle isn’t up so high that I can’t just heel up or down to compensate, so I guess a flexibility issue does make more sense.
hows your stretching/foam rolling game?
maybe some one-legged drills. if you have a muscle imbalance, one leg drills will show it really quickly
It’s pretty good, actually, but I focus an awful lot on lower back and hamstring flexibility. There are probably some more things I should be doing.
I read recently that most women experience pain on the left side of their labia when cycling and never their right. An informal survey of my female friends confirmed this to be the case. It’s not cuz we all have the same leg longer than the other.
I have no idea what it is either.
Why left labia, why?
I couldn’t tell if you were sticking it to me, but this made me laugh very hard.
prob related to the left ball hanging lower
and usually being the bigger one if they are unequal