I’m demo’ing an ISM Adamo Racing saddle and took it out for the first ride last night. This saddle definitely takes some getting used to, but I eventually settled into a position where I felt very comfortable. The only thing is, I seemed to be sitting pretty far back on the saddle in order to get into the “sweet spot”, which of course made my back uncomfortable because now I was streteched out too far. So I’ll move the saddle forward before my next ride, but I’m just curious, is it normal to sit farther back on the Adamo? I also suspect that the front of the saddle was too high, which may have been affecting my position.
From what I understand (quite limitedly), it should be level, or pointing downward SLIGHTLY (maybe a degree or 2), and you should be hanging off the front end. not so far on the back.
Maybe this guy can help. it helped me with mine. I’ve only ridden it once, but I hope this next ride will prove more comfy.
I have mine setup with the rails parallel to the ground and -4cm behind the bottom bracket at 81.5cm from bottom bracket.
For saddle setback (fore/aft adjustment) you should be sitting on the front half of the saddle with your soft tissue at the edge of the nose, if that makes sense. If you sit farther back, it may feel comfortable at first however you start to “crush” the package and defeat the purpose of the saddle. The purpose of the saddle is to support the sit bones, not the soft tissue. Saddle height should be such that you feel like your sit bones are supported when in the drops so that you can push with them vs. soft tissue.
Thanks for the info. I’m starting to think that the nose is angled too high, which would explain why it was so uncomfortable when I tried to sit farther forward. I’ll angle it down before my next ride.
I have an Adamo Road on my P3C, and I found I have to have the nose UP a couple degrees, or else I will start sliding off the front. But then I also weigh 205 and may be crushing the foam in the prongs more, so YMMV.
Yes, trial and error, for me I found that I was getting particularly sore/tender on the right side, so twisted it a tiny bit to the left and it feels better. I don’t know how I’d have known that without sitting on it for four hours first though…
to compliment this question. when you come up out of the aerobars. Are you supposed to need to move back a little in order to get the saddle to support your butt where the bones get a little wider? Or does that mean im too far forward?
As for getting i to feel comfortable in the aero position someone paralleled it to sitting on the edge of a park bench.
OK I angled the seat down and did a 3 hour ride yesterday. HUGE difference. I’ve never been so comfortable before, it was great. I was sitting all the way forward with my junk hanging off the front edge.
I still need to make some minor tweaks though. I think I angled the seat down a little too far because I was starting to slide off the seat, and since I was sitting so much farther forward than usual, I had too much weight on my arms and my upper body was getting tired. So I’ll rotate the seat one notch up and back slightly and I think I should be good. BTW, my seat rails are one notch below parallel with the ground, so after my adjustments they’ll be parallel with the ground just like usctriguy’s. That seems to be the sweet spot.
Once you find the sweet spot all the other saddles feel like your package is sitting on a nail.
A little trial and error to fine tune your position and it sounds like you are almost there. In my experience, if there is too much pressure up front it could be one or a combination of the following things: saddle too low, nose pointed down too much or saddle is too far forward.
Sounds like you just need to tilt your saddle up a degree or two and you should be good. So, how does your final position compare to where you started? Where is the midpoint of the saddle rails compared to your seatpost clamp?
For example, my ISM Adamo Race2 (not sure if the rails are consistant amongst models) has a range of 70mm rail fore/aft and the midpoint (35mm) is positioned 10mm in front of the midpoint (78*) of my saddle clamp, which I think should put me in the 79*-80* seat angle.
After probably a thousand miles on the Adamo racing, I switched out to the Adamo Typhoon and man is it comfy. I had to zip tie the front nice and tight, but talk about cozy. I’ll sacrifice a little weight for the cush of that gel, especially being on it for 6 hours.
