Performance Process: A saddle position for more power and comfort

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4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

We don't often think of a saddle as a performance item. Sure, the wrong saddle or poor fit can lead to performance-sapping discomfort or injury, but using the saddle to promote, maybe even improve performance, is something we rarely hear about. But that's precisely how Wove suggests we should think about saddles, and after a year or more of using both it's saddles, I tend to agree.

As such, that saddle-centric performance bike fitting is the topic of this week's Performance Process podcast, as I invite Nick from Wove onto the show to discuss everything from his bike fitting philosophy to the evolution of Tadej Pogačar's position.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Performance Process Podcast. My name is Ronan McLaughlin,
0:15.0	listeners. Well, you'll know my voice at this point, that's pretty familiar, but
0:18.7	what won't be familiar is, well, how we're going to run things today. We're going to do things
0:22.4	a little bit differently.
0:23.6	There's no Cayley today, he's not joining me. Instead, I am joined by the producer of a saddle that I have in for review.
0:31.3	A little bit different one, yeah, but bear with me here. The saddle is
0:34.7	maggs from the, well, from Wove, and my review with all the details and my thoughts on that saddle will be live soon but I invited
0:44.8	Nick from Wove onto the podcast here to record an episode to go live alongside that
0:49.8	review because well because Wove's philosophy has changed how I think about Saddles now and specifically how I think about Saddle setup, position and particularly around the angle and the sort of fore-aft position.
1:05.0	So Nick and I have been in conversation over the course of this review,
1:11.0	sort of he's being explaining to me the some of the philosophy behind
1:14.7	the mag saddle I have been trying to wrap my head around it and then yeah
1:21.6	pick looking for holes in that philosophy or looking to understand that philosophy
1:25.9	a bit better as I'm testing the saddle so there's been a lot of back and forth a lot of
1:30.7	relearning to be done on my behalf in terms of the optimal saddle setup, but I think what's core to Nick and Woves set up philosophy is that saddles should be the sort of central pillar to your bike
1:46.9	fit and all performance and comfort stems from there, which seems like an obvious statement,
1:51.8	but as we'll delve into this podcast now.
1:53.7	Welcome to the,
2:00.8	welcome to the podcast.
2:01.6	Thank you for joining us. Thank you very much. I appreciate being here.
2:05.2	I think we've always kind of thought of saddles as just like a perch for your rear end.
2:11.4	We haven't really thought too much of beyond that in some in some cases. your philosophy is a little bit different. Can you give me a brief outline as to what the
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