what are you doing you mean took myself oh we're filming yeah why for Tuesday's oh yeah you got a
bunch of saddles here which one is the best for road cycling which one's the best for me this
one I'm not running that the role of a saddle on a bicycle is to essentially support you stabilize
your pelvis we're usually looking to engage sit bones oration or pubic ground why sometimes both
which will depend on your public orientation your public orientation ie whether it's anteriorly
rotated like this austerity rotated or irrelevant whether it's neutral will determine to a certain
extent which subtle shape will work best for you also determine whether or not you need will need
a pressure relief channel so not everybody needs a pressure relief channel and I say preferably
Channel I'm talking about the whole scar the middle which is intended to offload soft tissue
you know quite a little studies that talk about sterility erectile dysfunction and nastier things
however if you have some sort of pelvic rotation like a physiological problem rotation or tilt
this saddle is not going to be comfortable because inevitably you will sit pit yourself to one side
which means that you're soft if you will miss that relief cap how do you know if you've got something
like that that's the problem because actually right a sip off to one side for a million on one
reason to be in submissions for them sport fur can be excessive salad mixes in reach it could
be soft tissue pressure in the first place quite a lot of people riding a saddle like this or sit
the skew is a means of trying to make themselves comfortable to give you an idea 75 percent of
people that leave this room leave with something like this this is a program and it's a it's a
ripoff of the specialized two pays for a similar level I get very very little assess with flatter
sandals that's like a pressure relief channel mostly because they tend to promote austere
rotation of the palace in English rather than sitting with your pulse at this which tends to
be pretty good for goods in this one the rider has to roll their hips back as a means of uploading
that which generates and promotes excessive spinal flexion which frankly isn't good for you so common
is this compensation that a certain celebrant has developed marketing in the saddle selection
system and strategy it's for spine concept we won't mention hers if you're watching this video
you're probably you know watching it with intent to try and find which is good have their self for
you and that kind of lifts the question why are you looking at new cell in the first place and
most people looking in new cells because they're in some form of discomfort now one thing that I
absolutely must destroy is that salad this comfort does not come from selves for the
most part it comes from bad positions so things like salad sauce for example you do not get as
a result of certain salads there will be certain cells that will help alleviate the symptoms but
for the most part some saws occur because of an asymmetrical interaction with a bicycle which
is probably why towards getting salads on one side and not both sides if you getting on both
sides and in your position is extremely bad I think there's a good starting point if you're
thinking about a new saddle something like this progression actually specialize make yourself
at the to pay a bond tree mustn't make circle the mantra is something like that which I find
with relatively flat has a reasonable pressure relief channel cut out of it they do come in
different widths I have to say although simpler person little Levon actually this saddle quite a
lot of my customers leave on this al they leave on a 142 the 152 width tends to be a little bit
too wide that is kind of what's fundamentally wrong with the saddle fitting systems that we
tend to see Albert out in and wah they usually derive or driven by measure and sit bone width
frankly citroën with I've come to find doesn't really have that much nasan in in in southern
selection I guess one very very popular concept that we've come across over the last five or six
years is the nose of the saddle it's a design philosophy I'm having increasing difficulty with
because of the excessive width of the rear portion that salad has a driver eyes to the nose of the
saddle this is a problem because the nose doesn't exist they are marketed as a means of enabling
you to adopt the more aerodynamic position now if you're racing that's true because you can
get a nose itself further forward on a bracket which what sort of air into the you see ice five
centimeter rule by the nose that cell has to be at least five centimeters behind the bottom bracket
if you're an average Joe frankly you shouldn't be trying to push yourself further for because
all it's doing is putting all your weight to the front of the bike approach stealth or specialized
power prologue a dimension all of these kind of knows the salads I saw it to call a few out but
I'm really struggling to get good results with particularly with normal everyday cyclists we
have to understand is that when these companies use professional cyclists as as a mechanism to
show you stuff they're doing it wrong but girls frankly professionals like this don't
buy an endless stuff they get given it to you more importantly they get paid to write whether
Chris Froome writes it or not is irrelevant it's not you are not Chris Froome the nose of the cell
thing I'm not saying it doesn't work but I'm having increasing difficulty with it I vastly
a hell of a lot more success with a traditional flat salad occasionally I get guys to come in
with one of these on a road bike these are great sellers I actively sell them to the right person
on the right bike this is an is m-pin 3.1 this is the new seller for myself but this is a time
for trial and salad and this is intended to load a different part of the pelvis particularly in Asia
my purchase further forward or the powers and it's designed to be written in a more anterior rotated
state this is potentially quite a nun an unpopular statement I would go as far as to say that this
salad doesn't really have any place on a road bike it doesn't support the pelvis sufficiently on a
conventional buy school but I find it's the only salad system or the only subtle design that you
can run to high and seemingly not there Jennifer Warnes this is usually the last ditch attempt
from riders to alleviate genital numbness when they have inserted the position of the bike in
the first place so you know if you're riding it's a de like this and you're still getting
numbness there's a problem it's nothing to do with the saddle you should really be getting your
position looked at so yeah something like this you shouldn't be having to resort to it really is only
for triathlon time time this is just the tip of the iceberg these this is too much information
regarding salads to put into one video but if your question is regarding salad fitting just put in
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