Originally Posted by
DannoXYZ
Well, to have a fully extended knee with the ball of your feet over the pedal-spindle would mean that your seat is about 2" way too high!
Notice that the adjustment places your
heel on the pedal-spindle. With the toes, you'd have the necessary 10-20% of knee bend at the bottom of the stroke.
Tell that to all the people with knee problems that went away when they raised their seat. It's having the knee bent more than 15-20% degrees while applying force that causes ITB problems.
yup - but that was already in the first part (that I snipped) of your original post
I have heard that pre-existing knee problems(chondromalacia) might be aggravated by low saddles - however, I've very rarely heard this and not in connection to ITB irritation/inflamation. Anyway, I'm off to google low saddle height and ITB
