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07-15-16 | 09:47 AM

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gugie

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Originally Posted by philbob57

I'm not sure where to post this, but it looks like C&V has the most posts about B17s (Brooks, not Boeing), so....

My problems are too much weight on my hands and pedaling on the nose of the saddle with my B17 Imperial.

Try tilting your saddle "up" a bit. It's very common for new Brooks saddle users to set their seat level. If you look at the saddles on most seasoned B17 users, it's tilted up a bit.

If you've got too much weight on your hands, it could be that you're using your hands and arms to push back on the saddle to counteract sliding forward on the saddle. Tilt it up a bit, and you're sitting on your "sit" bones, which will support you with a lot less pain than the soft fleshy bits between them.

Experiment with that a bit before you go and worry about setback.

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