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  1. #1
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Location
    northern Virginia
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    Make sure the saddle is pointing straight ahead. I had problems with pain on the right side only, and when I asked the my LBS fit guy about it he said it's usually caused by a saddle that is crooked. Sure enough, it was slightly off center.

    - Gray 2010 carbon WSD road bike, Rivet Independence saddle
    - Red hardtail 26" aluminum mountain bike, Bontrager Evoke WSD saddle
    - Royal blue 2018 aluminum gravel bike, Rivet Pearl saddle

    Gone but not forgotten:
    - Silver 2003 aluminum road bike
    - Two awesome worn out Juliana saddles

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Apr 2009
    Location
    Tucson, AZ
    Posts
    4,632
    It looked straight when I put it on, but I'll double-check that, since I have to tweak stuff anyway. Part of me thinks that it's just because I sat so weirdly with my old saddle. Since most of my power seems to come from my right leg (hence the knee pain, I'll bet!), I think I was shifting far to the right on the saddle to spare my right leg the rather unpleasant chafing, so I either wasn't sitting on my left sitbone much, or I was sitting somewhere odd so it didn't get a lot of pressure put on it.
    I'll make sure I check if it's on straight. I know I had a bit of a problem in that particular regard with the old saddle, mostly after the LBS I took it to fiddled with my seatpost...

    Out of curiosity: How the heck does one put on/take off/adjust a saddle with no cut-out? Any adjustments I've made I've done through the cutout. DBF took off the one that came on my Giant, before I had any clue how to do anything remotely mechanical with my bike.
    At least I don't leave slime trails.
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    2009 Giant Avail 3 |Specialized Jett 143

    2013 Charge Filter Apex| Specialized Jett 143
    1996(?) Giant Iguana 630|Specialized Riva


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