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| Thread ID: 109083 | 2010-04-23 22:40:00 | Bicycle Seat Height. | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
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| 879341 | 2010-04-23 22:40:00 | When I was a kid many years ago and had a push bike you adjusted your seat height so that both feet were firmly on the ground, the reason being so that if you had to stop suddenly or your brakes failed you could put your feet out to stop yourself falling over or use your feet as brakes. Today I see that the correct height for the seat is to have your leg strait out when the peddle is at the bottom, to me this seems unsafe and dangerous as when you are sitting strait up on your bike your toes can barely touch the ground and really insufficient to stop you falling over if you lose your balance etc. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 879342 | 2010-04-23 22:55:00 | Yip it's those same people you see trying to balance on their bikes at red lights. Saw a girl the other day doing it, seat way up high, slowly creeping forward while balancing on it (see was standing up at one point), by the time the light turned green she was a good car length out into the intersection because she was creeping forward. And it gets better. When it turned green and the cars starting moving she ending up swinging to the left to get her balance and almost hit the car in the left lane next to her. But no, lets blame the motorists for all these cyclist accidents. (yes I know there are a lot of good cyclists out there as well) |
--Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 879343 | 2010-04-23 23:05:00 | Come on, what sort of twat looks for official guidance on how hight to set their seat? | Metla (12) | ||
| 879344 | 2010-04-23 23:07:00 | I would've said it was more common sense. You would've adjust your car seat so that you can't reach the brake pedal. |
--Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 879345 | 2010-04-24 00:11:00 | Come on, what sort of twat looks for official guidance on how hight to set their seat? Here. (cyclingauckland.co.nz) Scroll down to bottom of the page. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 879346 | 2010-04-24 00:17:00 | Yeah, I realise its out there, They tried to adjust my seat to suit me when I bought my current bike, and informed me all about the "correct" method. All done in the name of service so I shouldn't really complain but out of me and the staff at the shop only one of us was going to have a say in the seat height. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 879347 | 2010-04-24 00:42:00 | Here. (cyclingauckland.co.nz) Scroll down to bottom of the page. :) Have a look here Trev. The experts don't even agree (www.bikeradar.com). And with your video I think those two were more bent than the bicycle.:p |
wmoore (6009) | ||
| 879348 | 2010-04-24 00:47:00 | The method described on the Cycling In Auckland site, is the method (more or less - there is often some fine tuning to be done also) for adjusting the seat height on a 'racing' bike - you know, carbon-fibre frame, skinny tyres, 27 gears. Trev, the method you used as a kid still applies to kids bikes, for exactly the reasons you describe (and even more important back then for kids of the male persuasion, since the horizontal bar between the seat and the steering head on those old bikes could potentially inflict some serious long-term damage asnd shorter-term pain). Riders of the "fancy bikes" these days are (should be?) experienced enough to cope with a higher seat height - designed so that the bike gets the optimum power output from the rider's input. It is extremely inefficient (and somewhat uncomfortable) to ride a bike with a seat height that is too low for your leg length for any length of time. |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 879349 | 2010-04-24 00:51:00 | In the end, it all boils down to comfort for the purpose for which you are riding. There is no single correct method. | johcar (6283) | ||
| 879350 | 2010-04-24 00:53:00 | Someone will eventually come along with a design for independently adjusting distance of saddle to pedals, and saddle to ground, like a variable diameter wheel :banana The problem is having just the one setting to do two functions. I used to adjust saddle height so that I could touch the ground with my toes of both feet. Feet flat on the ground was far too low a setting, probably ok for little kids frightened of falling off |
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