saddle tilt live and learn

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bro as i live i learn i hope ..well after thinking it was written in stone that a saddle had to be level ..I am finding that i like the front just tad higher on my saddles ..gee if i had listened to this old ex nat champ i used to ride with.. he told me that he liked his saddled like that ..i thought he must be looney ..well I am too now ..
keep an open mind ..
my saddles are turbo and rolls
cheers :beer:

[dnades]

I rode a friends bike who had his b17 tilted up slightly. Wayyyyy more comfy than mine which was level. I was worried about the pressure but no issues arose so up it goes. Keeps me in place better too.

[pdxmech13]

keeps one from falling off the front :beer:

[TAW]

I have to be careful that I tilt mine slightly up, or I get too much pressure on my hands from my weight being pushed forward. I guess that's why I like Thompson seatposts, they're easy to micro adjust.

[Erik.Lazdins]

I like my saddle with a very slight downward tilt - Aliante

[Ahneida Ride]

One can Micro Micro adjust a Thompson ....

Gotta love that ....

Most B17's point up ...

[dekindy]

I like my saddle with a very slight downward tilt - Aliante

Me, too.

[M.Sommers]

Nose slightly up here. It helps my hips to set/sit in their position.

I'm having revelations about saddle height though, heck it's about 3cm higher than ever and I love it.

:beer:

[mike p]

Flites, nose up ever so slightly.

Mike

[victoryfactory]

I think the "level" saddle thing is just a generality.
What people fail to take into consideration is the individual
shape of any given saddle. Concave, convex, straight or
any combination of those things.

Do what feels good

VF

[93legendti]

bro as i live i learn i hope ..well after thinking it was written in stone that a saddle had to be level ..I am finding that i like the front just tad higher on my saddles ..gee if i had listened to this old ex nat champ i used to ride with.. he told me that he liked his saddled like that ..i thought he must be looney ..well I am too now ..
keep an open mind ..
my saddles are turbo and rolls
cheers :beer:

Did you do any damage?

[1centaur]

While it seems written in stone to have a level saddle if you read forums, I noticed a lot of pros with a slightly up nose. Since I'm on a trainer five days a week and have a Thomson, it became an easy experiment, using a digital level, to find out what works. Nose up about 1 degree,across multiple saddles, works for me. I don't read stones anymore.

[chuckroast]

I purchased my first Brooks B-17 this last winter and put it on my Serotta after reading about them so much here. I had it level at first and didn't understand what all the praise was about. I even felt like I was sliding off the front somehow. So I angled the nose up just a bit back in April and what a revelation. Now I get what everyone meant. Totally worth it.

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Did you do any damage?
no but i am not as tough as i use to be
cheers imho :beer:

[Dekonick]

B-17's on all my rides, all of 'em pointed a bit up, and as far back on the rails as they will go. Happy nether region - no numbness here! :banana:

[93legendti]

no but i am not as tough as i use to be
cheers imho :beer:
I always tell my kids: Don't get old". :)

[Dekonick]

thats what I tell myself!

[39cross]

For some reason this reminds me of the famous quote from old friend Wilkins Micawber (from Dicken's David Copperfield if unfamiliar):

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

Just substitute cm's/mm's for pounds sterling/shillings etc. The boundary between comfort and misery is slim.

[bironi]

bro as i live i learn i hope ..well after thinking it was written in stone that a saddle had to be level ..I am finding that i like the front just tad higher on my saddles ..gee if i had listened to this old ex nat champ i used to ride with.. he told me that he liked his saddled like that ..i thought he must be looney ..well I am too now ..
keep an open mind ..
my saddles are turbo and rolls
cheers :beer:

I had the same experience, and switched to the nose-up slightly a few years ago, and yes it definitely relieves the pressure on hands and shoulders. Rolls only for a few years now, but I did jump on a buddies bike with a well worn B-17, and found it very comfy.
Byron

[Dave]

The terms level, tilted up or tilited down are only relevant to saddles that are relatively flat from front to back. A lot of models have a number of curves from front to back, like the Fizik Gobi that I use. If you placed a level from tail to nose, on mine it would read tilted down considerably, but that's because the tail is kicked up quite a bit. The area where I sit, near the middle is not tilted down at all. I place a tordedo level on the tail, hold it level and set the nose about 1cm below the level. That produces a lowest spot somewhere in the middle. Use whatever angle it take to keep from sliding forward and prevent excessive pressure on vital parts.

[93legendti]

...Use whatever angle it take to keep from sliding forward and preven excessive pressure on vital parts.

Great advice.

[vaxn8r]

With Specialized saddles you point them slightly down. They showed that the blood flow, where you need it, was better.