Originally Posted by
gringomojado
Can't understand when a rider calls a saddle a seat, and gets chuckled(or worse)at? What does the "saddle" get attached to? A SEAT POST,of course!
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Yes, English is somewhat inconsistent but in this case, the "seat post" part is wrong. Like a saddle on a horse, you don't "sit" on a bicycle saddle. At least you don't sit on it if you want to be comfortable. You should, like riding a horse, be only supported by the saddle but your legs do the major work of bearing your weight.
If you "sit" on a saddle...horse or bicycle...tender bits are going to end up
more tender. People who don't know the difference often have tender bits that are more tender and complain mightily about it.
As for other bicycle goofiness, one of my pet peeves is kilograms-force (kgf). The metric system has a perfectly useable unit of force called the newton.