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Old 08-04-21, 07:36 AM
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Branko D
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Originally Posted by hokiefyd
I do think my seat height is pretty close, though I certainly recognize that here, too, small changes likely have big impacts. I seem to straddle a fine line between "too low" (where I really feel it in my knees) and "too high" (where I have that feeling of a loss of motion control in the blog to which phughes linked). I think I'm too cavalier with the size of adjustments (too large at a time) and I probably need to tune things in smaller increments and iterate with that (and change just one variable at a time).
One thing which gives more freedom with saddle height are shorter cranks; I'm about 5ft 11 in US measurements and ride 170cm cranks. My legs aren't very long so it helps. For me, hiking the saddle up by something like 7-8mm from my current position (which is the highest I've tried) results in an uncomfortable feeling down there after going hard for 20-ish minutes, while I can ride basically all day in a trisuit with minimal padding with the current one.
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