This is obvious and self-evident to a lot of people, but is counter-intuitive to a lot of people: slamming your saddle forward to fix a reach problem will often make your problem worse rather than better. If your bars are too far away, and you are 'hunched over' too much, slamming your saddle forward also pushes your weight forward, so now you will have a lot more weight on your hands, making your hands, elbows, shoulders, neck and upper back all worse off.
Most road bikes from the 1980s have way too steep seat tubes, and require you to slam the seat all the way back, often with an extra laid back seatpost, to get your bum back as far back as it ought to be. When that weight distribution is right, you should be able to just lay your hands on the handlebars. If you are bent over too far when your saddle is in the right position, then the right way to fix that is to get the bars up. Slamming the saddle forward on a 1980s road bike would destroy my shoulders. It makes my neck tense even thinking about it. It's worth experimenting with a zero-offset seatpost if you don't mind the expense of it. Just know that you may find that you've made things worse rather than better. On Monday, May 18, 2020 at 10:45:35 PM UTC-7, Fryfam wrote: > > Anyone have a 27.0 Thomson zero offset seatpost they'd be willing to sell > and ship to me in Seattle? Need something for my old Centurion tourer - to > bring my aging self just a little closer to the handlebars... ;-/ > thx > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f6fb010b-4f24-4a41-8055-796a5d1a6049%40googlegroups.com.
