Re: Leather Saddle Update

zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 5/20/2025 5:43 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 5/20/2025 2:00 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 5/20/2025 8:02 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

 
Only sore wrists/hands or rather arm pump is from 1980/90’s  MTB’s on long
descents, where you could get for arm pump, some of my fellow Gravellers
get arm pump ...

 
What's "arm pump"? I'm unfamiliar with the term.
 

Sore fore arms from braking, on longer technical down hills, aka stuff your
constantly reapplying the brakes.

 
Ah. I remember my wife complaining about that from one long, steel
descent. She refused to ever ride that hill again.
 
Thanks.
 
 

I’ve not heard it ever used by roadies but MTBers whose terrain will push
brakes rather harder, and why they have 4 pot and bigger rotors and so on.
 
This said my MTBing even at my weight two pot seems ample the SLX finned
stuff I’ve yet to get it to fade, which I did with the original brake set,
with the same rotors.
 
Roger Merriman
 

 
Wrists, neck, and arms will get sore from braking down a long steep road
descent.
 

I’m sure though not to the same level as say 90’s MTB even the CX bike I
had with truely woeful cantis, while did I did need to keep pulling and
quite hard, and generally focused more on braking than on the Gravel bike
with discs, wasn’t enough to give me sore arms I am admittedly fairly
solidly built and all that.

Ie good reasons that MTB’s went disk first.

Roger Merriman