Originally Posted by
BikeWNC
Great job! Looking at your beautiful bike makes me wish I had gotten that Transition this Spring after all. One question about your setup. Is your saddle position legal? It looks like it is less than 5cm behind the BB. Maybe it's just the angle of the picture.
Short riders can apply for an exemption to this rule. Here's an article about that rule.
How is such an application made, and how often is it granted? According to the rules, the riders are given a "test" by the commissaires prior to the race. You pedal the bike, and the forward protrusion of your knee cannot pass in front of the pedal axle. Of course, you simply ride on the rearward part of the saddle during the test. As one highly-placed federation technical director put, "Everyone who takes the test passes, and these people get to ride a position unavailable to the naive or unaware."
Edit: The link to the article
http://www.slowtwitch.com/mainheadin...tr/tt_fit.html