Servo888

From my understanding, the seat should be level. But that doesn't work for me; the only way to get comfort is to tilt the nose down, otherwise it digs into the [big word that starts /w a p... (not penis... but the blood supply to it)]. I've read that if your seat is too high, or the bars are too low, you will feel such discomfort. But that's not the case here as I have an almost level drop, and my hips don't sway when I stroke.

I have seats with the a cut out, seats without one, and in all cases, I like the seat tilted forward.

JoelS

Whatever works for you.

Rob P.

I have my seat with the nose one notch down from level. It works for me and I have seen others with the same setup.

Fit is important but you have to realize that not everyone is built the same as the mold used to form the plastic/carbon seat pan. Some people are a bit bigger and some are smaller in their crotch radius and no seat will properly fit them. So we have to adjust the seat to fit our bodies.

If you aren't having any physical problems with your prostate or bachelor nerve cluster with your seat adjusted the way it is, then leave it alone.

Dubbayoo

That just moves the stress to your arms because your weight will want to slide forward.

RideCO

I used to have my seat tilted nose down for the same reason, I liked it. But in attempt to get more power I moved the seat forward, quite a bit in fact after several adjustments, and found that it worked better level and carried my weight better. Its got a lot to do with comfort and sometimes you just have to experiment a bit to get it right. Body shape changes a lot from person to person, and what works for one may not always be right for another. However, seat nose down isn't necessarily a bad thing.

grafsk8er

my seat is one click up from level. i had it pointed down and level, neither of which worked at all for me.

Beaker

TMI, dude.

Glad your seat angle works. We've all got to find our own little zone of perineal comfort.

Servo888

Pedal stroke

Wested

Mine's basically flat, but is tilted slightly, slightly downward. Very comfortable.

Beaker

you did have me concerned.

Later.

rbart4506

I like mine tilted up a touch above level....Too each their own...

jim6b

Had my seat tipped down on old bike. But it was an accommodation for a bike that had become too large for me (I shank, the bike didn't). It worked for me in the sense that if relieved pain to the forward sit bone. Had I not done so, the bike was unridable. So you might look at the need to lower the nose, not as something you should not do, but as a symptom of a different problem. That problem could be so slight that you just adjust after awhile and it becomes "normal." One word of caution. If you should go looking for a new bike be careful during any fitting. Your idea of "normal" may lead you to tell the fitter that the new bike feels "comfortable" (i.e. like your old bike) and you could find yourself buying another new bike replicating the same old problem.

Good luck.

johnny99

If you prefer your seat tilted down, it could be too high to begin with.

stevesurf

The tilt can mean so much; the difference between numbness in the nether region or normality. I like mine tilted very slightly down so that that numbness just goes away.

ultraman6970

Flat here.

bigtea

All the way back and very slightly up...I have a Thomson seatpost which has infinitely adjustable tilt rather than notches.

AnthonyG

I've found when playing around with the seat angle that yes, I do find it slightly more comfortable on my sitbones and neither regions to have the nose tipped down just a fraction but the trouble is that I can't take the additional weight that this places on my hands/shoulders for that long at all. For riding any sort of distance at all I have to have the saddle flat.

Regards, Anthony

awunder

I've been tipping my seat forward for quite a while, for the same reasons. I find that it's a twitchy thing - too far horizontal and I'm sitting on my 'taint (rather than the sit bones). Too far forward and I'm constantly slipping forward and putting a lot of weight on my arms. So it takes a few weeks to get it just right.

EGreen

I also depends on the saddle. I find that I have to tip my new Arione down further than is ordinary.

Longfemur

These are the people who read the old wive's tale about ramming the seat way back and take it seriously. Ok maybe if you're riding a beach cruiser, but on a road bike, it's bound to ram you in the crotch when you bend over to reach the handlebars. If you had your saddle adjusted right for you, you wouldn't need to have it angled down, and you would have less pressure on your hands. There's nothing worse than riding on a saddle which lets you slide down forward unless you use that Cervelo or Madone or Rivendell as a living room decoration.

Some of that ramming the saddle all the way back advice comes from when many road bikes were equipped with a Brooks or similar leather saddle. These saddles needed to be all the way back because of how their rails were designed.

EGreen

No kidding. If that were happening I am sure most would adjust the saddle accordingly - to stop that from occurring. This is all about optimal comfort and fit. If the hands are fine on long rides with the saddle nose notched down a millimeter or two- as in my case, then there is no issue.

Lighten up

Kambei

I switched out saddles and yesterday did my first two-hour ride on it. Had the nose tilted down a notch but during the final hour of my ride I had hand/arm pain, so I'm putting it level and going to try the same ride today. Had some front-of-the-knee pain too so I raised the seat about 2mm. Fiddle, fiddle, fiddle.

Hickeydog

Mine is flat. MAYBE a slight downward, but it's very very close to level. I tried a ride with the nose tipped down 3, 4 degrees and the pain in my arms and shoulders convinced me never to try that again.