Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
Having said that I never, ever adjust a saddle position or angle once I get it right. The idea of fooling with my saddle angle is completely foreign to me. IMO there is only one right saddle angle for a particular saddle and a particular rider. It may take some work to get it right, but I think changing the angle back and forth after that just falls into the category of head games. Many a process has been irretrievably upset by too much "knob turning". I put bicycle saddle adjustment into that same basket.
Living the life of a bike racer means you HAVE to ride. That means riding with saddle sore. At close to 10,000 miles/year, year after year, they will happen. Tipping the seat to get it off the sore is just something you have to do. Either that or write off a large portion of your season, either because you took time off or because of the pain and discomfort. But I agree with the importance of the saddle position. As soon as my week or two of "purgatory" was past, I went right back to the position I had before. And that is why I consider two bolt posts so important. As long as I kept track of how much I changed the tilt by amount of bolt turned, I could go back exactly to where I was before. For that I loved the old Campy (and Zeus) posts that required the special bent wrench. The SunTour posts later and now the Thompsons are lighter and much easier to access with ordinary wrenches but far more important, share that ability to replicate the position exactly and without measuring tools, even on the road.
I went 8 years between my last Campy style post and my first SunTour. During that time I had a single bolt post with "micro-adjust" grooves. After hours of fiddling, I got the position dialed in between clicks. Rode that position for 8 years knowing if I ever touched that bolt I could never get it back again.
Ben