Originally Posted by
Clem von Jones
I'm 6'2" and like flat part of my hoods 6-7 cm lower than the saddle and the sit-bone area of the saddle 295mm behind the BB. I'm wondering if you can get adequate setback with that combination of saddle/post. Perhaps your bars are so high because your saddle is too far forward. I think your seatpost might be about 1 cm too high. Maybe your too-high seatpost is pulling apart your knee joints or perhaps your right leg is a little shorter. I think your cleats should be about 5mm behind the balls of your feet. Those Journey racks are great because of that bottom parallel rail for the lower pannier hook which allows adjustment of the bags away from your heels.
I actually think his fore-aft position is about right. That's my point in the other post. For us normal height people (I'm 5'10") we are using the same seats and seat posts that allow 6' competitive cyclists to achieve proper position! I've gone to a zero offset post and my saddle near the limit of its forward travel to acheive pretty much the same fore-aft as the o.p. has in his video. My bars are a lot lower than his. I can stay in the drops for as long as necessary in headwind situations. You can't mash big gears at 60 rpm very effectively sitting that far forward. It is a position that favors 90 rpm spinning of relatively low gears. I do it because I am 55 and don't have thighs that are 33" around... each. The o.p. (and maybe you) should do it because its better for the knees. But you are correct, a too high saddle can cause knee pain... so can a too low one. The o.p. should have told us what his inseam was. I mean... why be shy... he's shown us everything else... lol.
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