Hey Ed,
We’re on similar bikes & saddle setup. I’m currently testing a V8 now.
On average, how much more did you have to lift the seat post? How about saddle tilt? My old dash was tilted around 3°. Kept the same for the wove & I felt like I was sliding off. Thanks.
Adding my 2 cents since I am a new user of Wove as of a few weeks ago. I’m down about 3-4 degree and raised the saddle about 4 mm so far, but slide the saddle back about 5 mm from original installation. I’m still playing with the height/tilt stuff. My inclination is to actually tilt it back up about 1 degree as it’s a bit too tilted downward to be secure feeling on long rides or sitting up. So…1 (maybe 1.5 mm degree up, and then raise the saddle yet another 1 mm).
I can’t say it has any of the back of the leg “bumping”/irritation I’ve felt with the Dash due to the short nose–on the hamstring (which was about level mounted, not tilted down at all)…so that is a relief. The longer Wove nosed saddle just seems to work–can’t say exactly why–it’s like getting in a car with more leg room. The only “con” I have really found so far is taking out/putting in the water bottle on the seat cage, it’s just is not working out too well…reaching far back (instead of DOWN just past the back of seat & partial bottle length to line it up, I have to pretty much stop pedaling and turn & look…if you drop it in a race you’re screwed and have to turn around again. I’m used to a BTA and a downtube bottle & it’s worked out excellent despite the downtube bottle not being the most aero. Can’t say I’m any better at lining it up than day 1–I’ll give it more time though…it’s a learning process (or I’m just that uncoordinated–probably more likely than anything…)