people here keep repeating the whole fist full of seat post is correct until it become "true". I'm 44 and had and remember 90s mountain bikes back then. seat posts showing where much higher unless you had a bike too big.
by Super_Yak9867
people here keep repeating the whole fist full of seat post is correct until it become "true". I'm 44 and had and remember 90s mountain bikes back then. seat posts showing where much higher unless you had a bike too big.
by Super_Yak9867
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Yep. Combine it with a negative angles stem, and you’ve got an aggressive looking bike.
https://preview.redd.it/vm9exgnaayue1.jpeg?width=511&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55d657104b904ff42c06ac7e42ac07b66b2acd93
This is a more racing oriented position and also my preferred one.
I think you need a small level of flexibility and fitness to stay comfortable in this position for a longer period.
That could be the reason many people here dislike having the bars below the seat height.
https://preview.redd.it/swqrk4lbayue1.png?width=912&format=png&auto=webp&s=01a801ac612e65cbb60871c940614900e21232ff
everyones favourite rockhopper bike
these will all most likely be 18inch frames, as that was the size the majority rode
Yeah a bit too much seat post is definitely better than slammed zero seat post showing, both for bike fit and especially for vibration dampening
With bikes with a more square geometry (similar seat to top tube lengths), those bikes tend to have horizontal top tubes so the amount of visible seatpost isn’t as obvious as 90’s MTB’s, so the fist full of seatpost thing works.
I get the whole french fit thing, although there’s still plenty of slammed saddles on here that people call french fit but are usually just a bike that’s too big. As someone else in this thread pointed out, it’s a fitness thing, which makes sense when you look at the saddle height of regular bikes locked up outside, a lot of the crapy bikes are ridden by people who just use them to get about and the saddles are usually always slammed because the bike doesn’t fit them or they don’t understand proper fitment.