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Originally Posted by squiggs96
On saddles, a big help to me was going with a shorter saddle. For a while I used the Fizik Arione saddle that came with my R3. I believe it was 300 mm long. A few years ago I switched to the Special Power Expert which is about 240 mm long. It made such a big difference. I switched to the Power Pro Elaston for my Huru. I'll likely switch this saddle to my S5 and put a more lightweight saddle on my Huru.
My S5 saddle is angled down 3 degrees and my Huru saddle is angled down 2 degrees.
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Several riding/racing buddies swear by their bike fits - and get them done annually in order to account for anything like age or injury or efficiency or flexibility changes, and often get several bikes checked at once (ie road, mountain, tri). Almost all of them ended up with a shorter-than-stock saddle length and swear by the overall results.
For many years my road bike was a high end Cannondale which I thought was amazing. Two summers ago I switched to a Cervelo R-series and had to make a few changes to my position (had to change stem, bar angle, seat, and seatpost) but the result was super favorable. My gravel bike is similar but more relaxed (plus it's the bike that gets ridden the most often). For the gravel bike since I installed the RedShift suspension stem middle of last summer it made a major difference for hand/shoulder/neck tension plus a lot more fun on the singletrack and gravel roads.