Originally Posted by
shelbyfv
The saddle is a good illustration. You used what you had and it was fine. Folks get (they think) a little "knowledge" and they start obsessing about a mm of crank length, a degree or two of HT angle, whether or not they have a 17t cog in their 11 speed cassette.... Often these are people who don't even ride significant distance. The point is, spend only as much time as you enjoy researching this stuff.
My first road bike became a hodge-podge of semi-compatible parts, which I was really proud of until I took a test ride on what became my SECOND road bike, which had all matching bits and just worked SO MUCH BETTER.
So, 25 years later, I stripped the first road bike of its incompatible bits and built the whole groupset around the original brake levers and calipers.