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Allan journeyman Reged: 05/04/04 Posts: 198 Loc: Bds,W I Re: saddle position       05/14/04 02:12 AM (66.205.8.130) Edit   Reply   Quote   Hello Kahuna, I was looking at the postings for the saddle position and noticed that no mention of saddle set back to BB was included. While i do see the offset of the BB to the seat post C/L in the Trek frames, i found that personally there is a marginal area of about an inch that you can safely "play" with in terms of the actual position. I know from my own experience that regardless of seat tube angle or BB offset, my comfort zone for a perfect position of saddle set back is 6 cm behind the BB axle centre, when i drop a plumb line from the front of the saddle. Also there is the plumb bob test for the various areas taken at the knee(depending on the formula)so the line can pass through the pedal axle centre when seated on the bike,clipped in and the crank on the measured side at the three o'clock position.However in reality, this only gets you into the ball park area, then you now need to fine tune the rest. -------------------- Its time to ride. Post Extras

Entire thread Subject Posted by Posted on saddle position MadRocketSci 02/18/04 03:27 AM Re: saddle position MadRocketSci   02/20/04 02:56 AM Re: saddle position vaxn8r   02/20/04 05:44 AM Re: saddle position Kahuna   02/19/04 09:03 PM Re: saddle position Allan   05/14/04 02:12 AM

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