Originally Posted by
electrik
Yeah, basically right. I have a suspicion that your hams are super-tight(can you touch your feet?). Tight hams can **** with your back and the classic cyclist flat lower-back(posterior tilt of pelvis and no lordosis) can really be exaggerated. Do you feel the reach for the bars has changed? Perhaps raising them up for the time being and working on flexibility/ab strength? For sure you'll get faster(way more efficient) by steadily engaging the quads.
Hey thanks for putting thought into this. Actually my hams are very flexible, I can touch my head to my knees with legs completely straight. And my pelvis has a nice anterior tilt. As far as reach what I noticed is that before the change my hub was way in front of my handle bars. With the seat dropped I can not see my hub, which I understand to be ideal...
I guess the message I am hearing is that I should return the seat to where it was and make small adjustments allowing time to adapt to the changes, and the result will be more quad activation and more efficient riding.
Thanks everybody, keep it coming.