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Old 12-04-15 | 08:23 PM
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Bikes: 1990 Romic Reynolds 531 custom build, Merlin Works CR Ti custom build, super light Workswell 066 custom build

Now to really stir things up!

I am well aware that KOPS is a bunch of crap as the final word on where your saddle should be placed. OTOH I don't think anyone has devised a better STARTING POINT for saddle position that the placement that yields KOPS. It really works as a position for folks to try out first before they move on as comfort and performance optimization dictate. I mean, after all, you have to start somewhere. It just so happens that I am completely satisfied with my riding experience with the saddle at KOPS, and that is the setting that yields my large saddle setback. My point is only to broach the question to OP: how did you arrive at this forward position you are trying to "center" by using a zero setback saddle? Was there a gradual optimization by continually moving the saddle more and more forward from some KOPS-like starting point? Or did you get there some other way?
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