This is what I used to do, and I found that I kept moving the saddle lower and lower with time. At one point I decided to measure various angles and compare against standard recommendations as a sanity check, and discovered that my knee angle was way outside any recommended range. After that I raised the saddle a lot (around 2cm) and focused on keeping my legs loose in the initial period of adjustment. So far, there hasn't been any problems; I'm still at the lower range of recommendations, close to 35 degrees and there's no bouncing on higher caddences or pain in the back of the knee or Achilles tendon.


[MENTION=364258]veganpower[/MENTION], personally, I measured without shoes or cycling shorts. I use relatively thin chamois anyway, and wearing cycling shoes only adds the height of the heel pads, not the actual cleat stack. Using LeMond formula against this measurement, I get saddle height slightly lower than what I actually have at the moment.