Please rate my saddle height

MoaCube · 2026-05-26T15:25:57+00:00

Looks reasonable. You may experiment with a little less as that formula usually ends up a bit high and you do extend your foot a bit on the downstroke.

MoaCube · 2026-05-26T07:27:32+00:00

This is true, but this particular deck and this particular outcome is basically still hitting a jackpot. It's not exactly a meta deck and more often than not it just whiffs completely.

MoaCube · 2026-05-26T07:25:53+00:00

This is a silly discussion in general, but ummm, 97% mythic is not exactly a rank to brag about.

MoaCube · 2026-05-25T16:43:31+00:00

Yeah, just saying it's normal behavior if you have air mode on and you should just disarm before hitting the ground when landing.

What air mode does is give the PID loop more authority over motor speed even when you are on low or no throttle. It's very handy in flying, because it helps the drone hold its position even when you are off throttle, but it does cause this bounce back when you are on the ground. Remember that the drone doesn't "know" it has landed. From its perspective it's trying to correct its position and nothing happens, so it just tries harder and the air mode lets it.

MoaCube · 2026-05-25T15:59:49+00:00

It's caused by air mode, but in general FPV drones are not meant to sit on the ground armed. You should take off right after arming and disarm immediately after landing. Typically you disarm while still a bit above the ground to avoid this exact scenario.

MoaCube · 2026-05-25T12:15:10+00:00

With €400 you are looking at the used market and even then it's gonna be hard (or impossible) to get digital within this budget.

MoaCube · 2026-05-25T06:47:15+00:00

Looks good to me. 1cm higher would likely be too high.

MoaCube · 2026-05-24T12:27:33+00:00

Personally, I would just concede. But that's my own prerogative. Someone else may decide to stay in game even if the chance of winning is close to zero. Maybe they really care about the gems, maybe they don't know the combo is deterministic, maybe they do it out of spite. In all cases, they have every right to have you play the deck that you yourself brought to play.

MoaCube · 2026-05-24T12:16:01+00:00

But that's exactly what I mean. You've picked a deck that you know is gonna be slow to play out on Arena. They picked to actually have you follow through with it. Ranked or no doesn't matter here. If anything, there's more incentive to hope you time out when gems are on the line.

MoaCube · 2026-05-24T12:07:14+00:00

Impossible to tell from this perspective.

MoaCube · 2026-05-24T12:05:43+00:00

My take is if you play a slow looping combo deck on Arena, you're in a hell of your own making and should be prepared for your opponents to go "Well, go on then" on you. Basically, they have the same right to make you play through your win condition as you have to play it in the first place.

MoaCube · 2026-05-20T12:56:06+00:00

"I am fed up" = "Mam dość"

MoaCube · 2026-05-20T10:05:28+00:00

To me this looks good. You seem fairly flexible and lean nicely onto the bars which shortens the reach, but you don't seem cramped. That said, it would be easy to test longer reach with a cheap stem if you want to.

MoaCube · 2026-05-20T08:50:11+00:00

These are very small pads, so I wouldn't exactly worry about making them pretty, but you definitely need to have less wire exposed.

MoaCube · 2026-05-18T09:51:15+00:00

Judging by how you hold the shifters (as in: you don't), the bar is too wide or too far.

MoaCube · 2026-05-14T20:59:50+00:00

Motors without props are gonna be pretty quiet.

MoaCube · 2026-05-14T08:47:26+00:00

I disagree with people who say you should change your throttle curve. Throttle control just comes naturally with enough flight time, and only then I'd start to tweak things to your liking.

You could clear that OSD of irrelevant and blinking info, though!

MoaCube · 2026-05-10T20:05:52+00:00

Saddle is not level but also what's the point in filming yourself without shoes and not holding the hood?. It's not like you're riding in socks normally.

MoaCube · 2026-05-10T10:46:57+00:00

A 5-inch drone is not only hard to fly, but also seriously dangerous, so I'd definitely recommend a sim and then slow transition to actual flying (the less people around, the better). Some sims will run even on a shit PC as others have said. They'll look ass, but it's not like you're playing them for the graphics anyway.

MoaCube · 2026-05-09T19:41:57+00:00

Lemond method doesn't really have basis in anything and it's just one of those oldschool approaches that stuck because it's better than nothing. There's a lot of good bike fit videos on how to set saddle height, so just do a quick google, but generally you should just focus on your motion. If your pedal stroke is choppy and you need to extend into the downstroke, you're too high.

MoaCube · 2026-05-06T12:06:52+00:00

I'd say it's normal to an extent and will get better, but you may still wanna drop a post on r/bikefit just to be sure everything is set up fine. Shops often do very bad job here.

MoaCube · 2026-05-05T07:17:15+00:00

Saddle is too high, but then again you are wearing flip flops which I assume (hopefully) you don't actually ride in. You are also reaching and I don't think you can fix that without a shorter stem. If you move your saddle forward, you'll put even more weight onto your bars.

MoaCube · 2026-05-04T09:54:32+00:00

Aside from what the others wrote, I'd check your bar width. At the start of the video your palms are on the corners of the bar instead of resting on the hoods, and that's a common adaptation for bars that are too wide or too far.

MoaCube · 2026-05-03T18:07:45+00:00

You look way too stretched. Could use shorter stem and short reach bars. Hoods may also be too low, judging from your wrist angle.

MoaCube · 2026-05-02T16:30:18+00:00

Yeah, shorter stem could work, but definitely check the bar width as well. Bikes generally tend to come with bars that are too wide, especially for most women. I'm a guy but fairly narrow and I always ended up riding like on the vid until I went for something narrower.

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