For a few years I have got on fine with my saddle height. Slight soreness on rides over a 1000km but nothing a liberal application of Sudacream did not help with.
In Feb I moved my audax bike's seat post over to an MTB temporarily as I was building a new bike and it fitted. Moving it back I did not notice the saddle was ~9cm higher than my commuter (same size frame & crank arms). I rode a DIY 600 with a set of tri bars and made good use of them. No I'll results all round (heatstroke excepted).
Then later that month I rode a hilly 300 and the result was injured right Achilles. Months off the bike, I thought I'd sorted it out, but a 400 proved my wrong in both Achilles.
Googling I found seat height to be the problem. A left over piece of tape marking the wrong (MTB) seat height was the culprit.
I proved this a week ago on a 200 with no I'll affects.
So my question is, what do riders do on long rides, 500km+ if you use tribars, what do you do with your seat height. Or am I looking at the wrong bit, do you use longer stems, or somehow push your tribars forward??
Cheers.
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