No'a'tall, Michael. Happy to answer any questions. That's the beauty of this gangly bunch! Grin.
The ride started out at 25 at my house, likely dropped to 15 at the high point and was 45 at home when I got back. It's a fun thing to arrive at the bottom of a long mountain descent far warmer than you started out. Saddle tilt: I don't know this is the bars. I think it has a lot more to do with hip rotation. I run and ride with my hips "open" (which essentially means rocking the top of your hips back and the bottom of your hip forward, or tucking in your rear). With the seat more level, I slide forward too much and bits get un comfortable and go numb. I don't like that. We floor live (no chairs or bed), which leads to a strong core and limber, lithe bodies as well as moving differently than most people are accustomed to. So I suspect the saddle tilt is the result of that. I've never ridden a cut-out saddle, so I can't compare them. Road Bumpiness: I have constant vertigo from brain injury so avoided the sprung saddle because I was looking for a stable platform to maximize proprioceptive feedback. So I can't compare. But I love the saddle and I've ridden several hundred miles of the Great Divide Mountain Bike Trail (Central CO to the NM border), which had some rocky bits. What I learned on that trip was that Grant is right: we have the best shock absorbers in our knees and elbows. I floated along standing (squatting, really) on my peddles with knees and elbows bent while my bike bounced away beneath me and the descents on rough road were marvelous. Climbing rough roads is great, generally too slow to matter much, though climbing heavy washboard is no fun. Hopefully somewhere in that rambling is something helpful. With abandon, Patrick On Sunday, March 31, 2013 1:36:24 PM UTC-6, Michael wrote: > > Nice shots! Looked like a chilly, but fun ride. >> >> If you don't mind, >> > I have a couple newbie-to-Albatross bars questions in case I switch to > them one day: > >> >> 1. No cut out on your saddle, but I see it is very tilted - nose up. I >> take it it works well with the ablatrii bars since one sits more upright >> with them? >> >> > 2. How does sitting upright without a sprung saddle feel? Not too much > road bumpiness on the unsprung saddle? Thanks. > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
