I believe from my experience that finding the right height, horizontal position and tilt for a saddle is a matter of personal experience and preference, with rules being simply a more convenient starting point than, say, starting with your saddle resting on the top tube.
So the question becomes: how do you feel presently? Do you feel the need or desire to stretch your legs more? Raise the saddle a cm or so. Do you feel as if you can't get power over the top of the stroke? Try pushing it back a cm. Do you feel as if it is slowly slicing you in half? Lower it a cm. And so on. For me, it took 20 years of riding before I learned my preferences, and even now I continue to adjust slightly, by 5 mm increments, as season, shoes and astrological signs vary (just kidding about the signs; I always do my yearly height tuning in Mars/Ram.) Seriously, if you are inexperienced, start with the Riv instructions and adjust per the above. On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Jay LePree <lep...@optonline.net> wrote: > Hi all: > > One of the things I always wanted to know but was afraid to ask. The > RBW method for determining saddle height is PBH - 10 to 11. The > measurement is made from center of the cranks (the spindle of the > bottom bracket) to the top of the saddle. > > Here are the questions. How many of you use this formula? Do you > adjust it if you place the saddle all the way back on its rails? > (Related....don't laugh...where does one measure the top of the > saddle...the area where you sit, the area right over the seat post?) > > I ask because my saddle height seems to be shorter than this (with MKS > pedals and Addidas Sambas)..more like PBH - 15. I would like to raise > it to Riv recommendations, but I was wondering what your experiences > have been. > > Regards, > > Jay > Demarest, NJ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com (505) 227-0523 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
