Originally Posted by Longfemur

These are the people who read the old wive's tale about ramming the seat way back and take it seriously. Ok maybe if you're riding a beach cruiser, but on a road bike, it's bound to ram you in the crotch when you bend over to reach the handlebars. If you had your saddle adjusted right for you, you wouldn't need to have it angled down, and you would have less pressure on your hands. There's nothing worse than riding on a saddle which lets you slide down forward unless you use that Cervelo or Madone or Rivendell as a living room decoration.

Some of that ramming the saddle all the way back advice comes from when many road bikes were equipped with a Brooks or similar leather saddle. These saddles needed to be all the way back because of how their rails were designed.