Road Cycling“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway
Almost hot, needs a different saddle (Flite preferably on that kind of bike), and silver spokes and hubs.
It's a fancy schmancy 100th anniversary Selle Italia Century saddle (period correct and all), but I'm kind of with you on the looks... A flite would look better. Debated the spoke/hub color but went with black and gold nipples. It's all subjective anyhoo...
It's a fancy schmancy 100th anniversary Selle Italia Century saddle (period correct and all), but I'm kind of with you on the looks... A flite would look better. Debated the spoke/hub color but went with black and gold nipples. It's all subjective anyhoo...
Needs a classic Selle Italia Regal (one that is levelled )
Modern Selle Italia Flite saddles even need to be a little nose high for me.
Indeed, I'd go further than that: people who think a non-levelled saddle is okay, fine or even perfect either don't have a clue or they don't do long distances. I've often challenged them to find me one pro rider who does not level his saddle.
Indeed, I'd go further than that: people who think a non-levelled saddle is okay, fine or even perfect either don't have a clue or they don't do long distances. I've often challenged them to find me one pro rider who does not level his saddle.
nose down is just wrong. It just causes problems.
What surpised me is the slight nose high angle that works for me with Selle Italia Flite saddles. Level just doesn’t work, and I have a 13cm saddle-bar drop
Indeed, I'd go further than that: people who think a non-levelled saddle is okay, fine or even perfect either don't have a clue or they don't do long distances. I've often challenged them to find me one pro rider who does not level his saddle.
Since the UCI relaxed the rules in 2015 to 9 degrees nose down, I'd say at least half the pros ride with tilted down saddle
Since the UCI relaxed the rules in 2015 to 9 degrees nose down, I'd say at least half the pros ride with tilted down saddle https://youtu.be/69OzE3KB2IY
Then why do you post a photo of a pro bike with a levelled saddle? On that Trek in only looks tilted down because of the sloping top tube and the bike stand.
Also, the video explains how they slightly tilt the saddle down because it gives comfort in combination with the extreme saddle to bars drop these pros run. "Caliwilde" hardly has any drop at all
Then why do you post a photo of a pro bike with a levelled saddle? On that Trek in only looks tilted down because of the sloping top tube and the bike stand.
Also, the video explains how they slightly tilt the saddle down because it gives comfort in combination with the extreme saddle to bars drop these pros run. "Caliwilde" hardly has any drop at all
Fine, here are some pro bikes
Remember, this was the post i was responding to
Originally Posted by Timo 2.0
Indeed, I'd go further than that: people who think a non-levelled saddle is okay, fine or even perfect either don't have a clue or they don't do long distances. I've often challenged them to find me one pro rider who does not level his saddle.
I'm not here to argue what saddle tilt is correct, but absolute statements like yours are foolish.
How long is yours? Mine is 100mm and plenty stiff enough for steep hills and sprinting.
110. Is yours the 17° version?
The cheap carbon bars I'm using may also be a factor; the flex of the bars and stem combined was ridiculous. But I replaced the Kalloy stem with a 20g heavier Zipp one, and now I'm happy with it.