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Old 05-11-21 | 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by willhub
I'll try 5mm lower tonight on the turbo see how it feels

Seriously read Hogg's article on seat height, and try his method. It really does work. He has you make changes in 3mm increments. If you are dropping to one side, you may have to drop more than 5mm. After being set up initially, I had to drop around 20mm total. That's a lot, and getting the saddle down made me much more stable on the bike. As I said before, I was really resistant to dropping it the last 5mm, I got it close, and went months before dropping it the rest of the way. I shouldn't have been so stubborn.

Keep this in mind as well. If you try the heel test, putting your heel on the pedal to measure seat height, measure with the crank arm in line with the seat tube, not perpendicular to the ground. Inline with the seat tube will give you the longest point of the pedal stroke in relation to the seat, and interestingly, is pretty much where my seat height is now, after going through all these gyrations. If you set it with the crank perpendicular to the ground, as most people do, you end up with a higher seat, and you will be reaching when the pedal is at the actual bottom of the stroke, which is when the crank is inline with the seat tube.
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