Originally Posted by mickey@spooky

Many riders, Especially on Fizik Arione saddles, actually like the nose of the saddle tilted up 3 or 4 degrees, I'm one of them.
It let's them keep their hips rotated rearward and gives them the ability to straighten out their sacral/lumbar regions by "folding" forward and being able to smash your junk against something solid makes sure that you are recruting core muscles instead of dangling your thorax over the middle of the bike like a meat sack. Other saddles, like say, a Turbomatic get tilted and tweaked and moved a little bit to affect the same result. The angles, be they up or down are irrelevant, as long as they are within accepted norms.
Small variations from "the norm" i.e. horizontal are all that is needed, in either direction to make someone comfortable and efficient.



The general(steadfast really) rule is that if it looks wrong, it is wrong. How or why some people ignore that I'm not sure, but it just doesn't need to be this way.

I'd post a picture of a few of the bikes that make me crazy, but I don't want to be a bigger dick than I already am right now...