Originally Posted by
Murray Missile
OK, it's generally accepted here that bicycles have "saddles" not seats. So.......... why do they have seat tubes and seat posts, not saddle tubes and saddle posts?
Not that it really matters to me one way or the other but I got to thinking about that the other night and couldn't get it out of my head.
If you try to make logical sense out of bicycle dimensions and nomenclature, you are doomed to suffer a lot of sleepless nights.
These days most dimensions are metric but steer tubes and chain pitch are still given in inches. Tire sizes is one that I used have some fun with but some spoil sports are slooooowly clearing that one up. My pet peeve is the common use of the word "alloy" to mean "aluminum".