Yes, indeed. And these comments are what I've always liked about the Salsa Shaft seat posts. I have a black one on my MTB and a more rare silver one on my Ram. Once you've dialed in the front-and-back adjustment of the saddle and tightened it up with one bolt, you can "micro-adjust" the angle of it via a separate 5mm hex bolt and and then lock the position by yet a third bolt. And, you can remove and replace the saddle without disturbing the angle tilt settings. I wouldn't want to have any other seatpost. https://g-tedproductions.blogspot.com/2019/07/review-of-parts-past-salsa-cycles-shaft.html
On Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 12:10:00 PM UTC-6 Garth wrote: > Yes, pro cyclists are well known for attention to details, down to the mm. > Pro road riders always have a backup bike on the team car. Despite the best > efforts of duplication, they never are the same as their preferred bike. > Same parts, same measurements, etc, but obviously there's more to it than > the eye can see. When a pro rider has to do a bike exhange, if the > mechanics can fix that bike from the team car while the rider rides on with > the spare bike, a rider will often ask to swtich back to their preferred > bike when given the opportunity. > > I've stopped keeping track of where I place the bars, stem and saddle > because no matter where I set them, I find myself tweaking something days > or weeks later. I have a log book of a bunch of irrelevant numbers ! In the > case of winter, where I try to ride on rollers every other day indoors, > I'll try all sorts of setups because I have all my home tools at hand > without fussing with tools in bike bag on the road. Basically, I've > realized I'm not limited to, or by, and one certain setup and numbers. Take > some time off the bike and everything seems so new. > > That said, after over a foot of snow of late, I suddwnly have no desire to > even think anything about a bike. Not just the work to remove all the snow, > but out walking the hills with pristine snow that only a few deer have been > is both taxing and energizing. It's the freshest of air ! Plus it's been > -4 to 15d F. This kind of winter is just too inviting to be outside to > think about a bike right now. > On Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at 6:00:49 PM UTC-5 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> I’ve read that Eddy Merckx never stopped making minute adjustments to his >> saddle height throughout his career; tho’ perhaps this was due in part to >> his injury from the accident with a spectator. >> >> So at least the great Eddy and I have this much in common. >> >> Patrick Moore, who very surprisingly felt distinctly slower than Eddy on >> the ride home just now against a ~10 mph headwind (and carrying 29 lb of >> groceries. Never saw Eddy do *that*). >> >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 3:52 PM Jay <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> They call us, "micro adjusters", vs. "macro adopters". Heard that on a >>> cycling podcast years ago. I can feel just a few mm difference. I wish I >>> wasn't so picky, but if the bars are too far by 5mm, it makes a huge >>> difference to my upper body comfort (= discomfort). >>> >>> On Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at 5:49:22 PM UTC-5 Patrick Moore wrote: >>> >>>> The 1999 Joe Starck Riv road custom has for >25 years been my Platonic >>>> archetype of bicycle fit and feel, and my body, torso and shoulders and >>>> arms and hands, in particular, just fit “instinctively: reasonable bend >>>> for >>>> power and aero, easy to use hooks and hoods and flats. One just “falls >>>> into” the right position. >>>> >>>> So I try to set up all my other bikes to mimic that fit and feel, and >>>> I’ve pretty much succeeded with the Matthews road bike for dirt and the >>>> Roadeo, despite a ~3-4 cm higher bar and 10 cm stem on the dirt road >>>> Matthews, and a much different stem — 90 mm, + 30* — on the Roadeo, versus >>>> 80 mm, 3-4 cm below saddle, for the Starck. >>>> >>>> The 2020 Matthews IGH fixed gear road bike is a geometric clone of the >>>> ’99, but despite using the same seatposts, saddles, stems, bar, brake >>>> levers dialed in exactly the same way, so I thought, the reach just felt a >>>> wee bit too long. >>>> >>>> This once again annoyed me on today’s errand ride, so after some more >>>> compulsive measuring I decided that I’d missed the exact bar/stem height >>>> by >>>> a couple of mm, and raised the bar by a scant 1/4” — scant in the sense >>>> used in recipes. >>>> >>>> Transformation! 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