Setting saddle height

secretsam

What's a quick way of setting saddle height? Am sure the saddle on my road bike is too low

Avezius

Heel on pedal, Leg straight should get you a ballpark position I think.

father_jack

With your shoes on and fitted, say about 10 degree bend from straight, with the crank at 6 o clock. Crank length will come into this, if you swop over to another for some reason or find crank too short or too long.

fludey

10 degrees are you sure I thought it was meant to be around 25-28 degrees bend at the knee with your foot clipped in at 6 o clock....other quick method measure your inside leg and multiply by 1.09 use this for top of seat to pedal spindle...lots of other methods about.

I must say the 25 degree one worked perectly for me...dont forget fore & aft position of seat as well just to confuse you more :P

e999sam

The best starting point is as mentioned before with crank in line with your seat tube place your heel on the pedal and your leg should be straight from there you can adjust it up and down in small increments to see what suits you best.

Alibran

I found the heel on pedal method worked well for me as a start, and then I made small adjustments until I was completely comfortable.

I would have had difficulty working it out from normal pedalling position, I think. Working out the correct angle of your knee is quite tricky (even with a protractor) and that assumes you know what the correct angle should be.

e999sam

The heel on the pedal puts you in the ball park after that it's a bit of a personel issue. I think it's prity much accepted that your saddle shouldn't be that high that you need to roll your hips to reach the bottom of the pedal stroke and you shouldn't sit that low that you push yourself out of the saddle when you try and straighten your leg at the bottom of the sroke.