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Can't get enough setback - Are my femurs really as long as they seem to be?
I always struggle to get my saddle back far enough. I'm about 5'6", so I'm mostly on smaller frames with steeper seat tube angles, and I like leather saddles. I recently picked up an old SR MTE-100 seatpost with adjustable setback, and put it on one of my bikes yesterday to play around with it. The bike is a 53cm Bianchi Sport SX. It has a 74° seat tube angle, and is currently equipped with a 165mm crankset. I usually use 170mm cranks, but this is a temporary build using parts from a scrapped bike to see if I like this frame enough to keep it and put some money into really building it up.
Anyway, while I was out test-riding it with the adjustable seatpost, I ran into a photographer friend and had him get a couple pictures of me on the bike. I'm slightly surprised that it took as much setback as it did to even get to what appears to be approximately KOPS position. Are my femurs really that disproportionately long?
Last edited by agmetal; 10-03-17 at 09:01 PM.