Originally Posted by
LesterOfPuppets
Many say you know your saddle position is correct when you can ride for a while with your hands off the bars, in midair just above your hoods. Maybe not a couple of miles. I figured that couple mile no hands ride part might help the OP learn that hands on bars is not really all that important?
it's not balance, it's that I find the position very uncomfortable as a tremendous amount of weight is then carried on the nose of my saddle. I ride (relatively?) low with a flat back, lot of bend at the waist.
sitting upright, the weight is where it needs to be, on the sitbones. could ride like that with no hands for however long, but it doesn't serve me other than to open and consume food.