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Originally Posted by bitpuddle
Out of curiosity, why do you care about the sta?
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I used to have a frame with 73.5 STA and felt I could never get the saddle back far enough to be comfortable without having the saddle pushed all the way back on the rails.
What I have found works is a shallower STA. One of my current bikes has a 72 STA with a "normal" seatpost, and on another there is a 73 STA with an extra setback seatpost (FSA).
The centre of the saddle is the same distance behind the centre of the bottom bracket on each bike. This gives a much larger setback than is apparently "normal" but it seems to work for me.
My untutored take on it is that I probably have long femurs relative to everything else. I am therefore wary of STA's any steeper than 73 and will probably therefore pass on the Canyon, although they are very attractive.
Am I missing any other obvious solution?