I am no expert, but have been through this not so long ago…
> I’ve been using a lamp post or such to get started. Should I start trying
> to freemount now or wait till I’ve got riding under more control?
I would suggest waiting, it shouldn’t be too long. From 10-20 meter to
much longer was non linear progress for me. One day, it just happened
magically, like most uni related skills. I actually witnessed a friend a
couple
of week ago going from his 10m max to more then 100m in one evening!
Then you will be ready for freemounting, since a suitable lampost is not
always
handy.
> When does my butt start to automatically find the sweat spot in the seat?
> I’m on a Viscount saddle and I’m still not sure if my body should be
pushing
> forward or backward in the seat. For what it’s worth the seat is adjusted
> to be pushed as far forward on the uni post as possible.
Interesting, I have personnally never pondered this. The key is to have
your
weight on the uni, not on the pedals.
> This is hard work. After 30 mins or so I’m sweating like a pig. (Do pigs
> sweat? I never really noticed.) I’ve avoided hitting the ground with
> anything but my feet in the last week but I have managed to bang my calves
> up pretty good. This evening I managed to wedge my left foot between the
> crank and the spokes. Bruised and scraped but not enough to stop me from
> climbing on again.
Once you put your weight on the saddle, it becomes much easier. As for
falling,
don’t worry, interesting falls will happen, especially after you concluded
that
it is not possible to fall in any other way than on you feet!
> Once you put your weight on the saddle, it becomes much easier. As for
> falling,
> don’t worry, interesting falls will happen, especially after you concluded
> that
> it is not possible to fall in any other way than on you feet!
Ah yes, tonight I thought I had the landing on my feet thing pretty well
figured out until I tried keep my feet on the peddles just a bit longer than
I should have. Landed backwards mostly on my hands. I was wearing wrist
guards. They’ve saved the bones at the heal of my palms several times now.
Thanks for the other tips Jocelyn. I will take all the help I can get.
Tonight I made my initial 50m goal. Had several over that with one to 60m
before I exhausted myself. I’ve noticed now that I’m not breathing deeply
enough. Just need to relax more I think.
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:59:22 -0500, “Cubby01” <cubby01@lycos.com>
wrote:
>I’m still not sure if my body should be pushing
>forward or backward in the seat.
None. The sweat (sic) spot is where the forward-backward pushing is
neutral. Otherwise, shift your body position.
>For what it’s worth the seat is adjusted
>to be pushed as far forward on the uni post as possible.
That’s good as it gets the sitting location on the broader back end of
the seat. But with the short slots in the Viscount base plate it
doesn’t matter much.
Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict
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