Quote Originally Posted by elk View Post
Is there a way to tell if you are "dialed in correctly" by where you feel the ride?
For me, that feeling is sort of like 'floating' over your bike.... like softly treading water. Call me nuts, but I call it my "out of bike experience". On downhills, it almost feels like sliding down a soft snowy bank on a plastic sled. Floating...

I made some little adjustments and mostly felt the muscles just above my knees straining. I raised the seat a fraction and that lessened a bit.

Lisa, I am working on triangulating my weight...seat pedals bars....raising the seat helped there too.
Good to keep experimenting- that's how we learn. If you get pain on the tops of your kneecaps at the end of a long ride- raise the saddle up another 1/2" or so. But the feeling of straining muscles can also just be normal when you don't have a lot of muscle strength yet. Expect some sore muscles in places you never knew you had them!