Off list I had contacted Patrick about shoulder and neck pain on my non Riv bike asking for recommendations on what changes I could make on it. Saddle and handlebars are about the same height. His suggestion once he saw picture of the bike setup was to move the saddle back. I don't know the right terminology, but just as the seat is "behind" the peddles on the OM-1 pictured above, my seat wasn't. I changed the saddle to one with longer rails and moved it to the most back position. This removed most of my pain and I felt more balanced on the bike. It's almost perfect. In fact, it is so good, that I'm thinking about getting a Selle Anatomica saddle because I heard that because it has longer rails I can move the seat back even more. Thank you Patrick!
Roberta On Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 1:42:48 PM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: > Several people have described this experience on the list. I've found, as > have others, that sometimes you relieve, not only your seat, but your > shoulders, arms, and hands by moving the saddle back to get more of an > angle between hip and pedals, and let your torso muscles hold more of your > torso's weight. > > This happens not only with drops but with bars of all sorts, IME. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
