It has become increasingly obvious over the past couple of weeks that there must be something wrong with the saddle position on the training bike for Joules. She has started to suffer a little with hip and thigh aches.
Richard has researched his extensive library of cycling books (2) and altered the saddle as best he can. The forward, backward and tilt aspects are all now as correct as possible, however we have hit a hitch. We cannot get the saddle quite low enough by about 1/2 inch meaning that Joules is having to slightly overextend her legs on each rotation of the pedals.
The problem is that the seat post Joules uses on the tandem has a suspension gizmo in it that stops the post moving further down in the frame on the training bike. The downtube on the tandem has a lower top, so no problem there. We tried Richard's seat, but the post is too long and hits the bottom stop before it is quite low enough for Joules.
Unfortunately none of our other bike seat posts are the correct diameter - Richard tried four this morning.
It looks like the only option is a trip to Cyclelogic in Helston to ask them if they can trip an inch off the bottom of Richard's seat post, there's plenty of spare!
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