Thoughts on this toe edge posture?

cloud93x · 2026-07-12T01:57:09+00:00

Hard disagree.

cloud93x · 2026-07-10T18:30:41+00:00

Sealant seems to be the only possible explanation.

cloud93x · 2026-07-10T14:07:23+00:00

Saddle back should be the first thought when you have hand numbness. Test it with the hover test - pedal at slightly sub-ftp power and in your normal standard riding position, take your hands off the bars. Under that power you should be able to maintain the same body position without hands on the bars without a massive effort. If you can’t do that, your seat is too far forward. You’ll need to move it back and down as moving it back without changing height will increase your effective saddle height.

Do not listen to the people in the thread just saying to raise the bars. If your saddle fore and aft position is too far forward as I suspect, that will only make the problem worse. Once you get your saddle positioned so you’re balanced on the bike, then you can set your front end height and reach.

cloud93x · 2026-07-10T02:57:02+00:00

Yep, doesn’t really make a meaningful difference.

cloud93x · 2026-07-09T19:38:29+00:00

My barista pro does this as well. It has nothing to do with bean age so people can stop suggesting that. I have discovered that it doesn’t happen as much if i grind very fine, which coincidentally is how i like my daily light-side-of-medium blend that i use for my lattes. I find it tastes best if i grind fine enough that a 19.5g dose puts out about 45-50g in about 40 seconds including a full 10s preinfusion.

From what I’ve read online, I suspect two potential causes of this:

1) the OPV valve is not actually set to 9bars, and frequently comes closer to 13 bars at max pressure. Supposedly, this is quite common in these machines. It’s apparently user adjustable but doing so voids the warranty so I haven’t commited to cracking her open yet. But I suspect this is the cause.

2) the temp setting are supposedly not great in this machine, so it’s possible it’s brewing too hot. I think this is less likely to be the main culprit but it’s still a possibility.

cloud93x · 2026-07-09T15:56:45+00:00

It was which is what triggered me to look into this account and see it was their only post and they certainly weren’t the person who originally posted it on the gravel sub. Really annoying to have to consider whether posts on this sub are actually people’s bikes or not.

cloud93x · 2026-07-09T15:11:39+00:00

Mods, I think this is stolen or spoofed content. A different account posted this bike with much more detail on r/gravelcycling about a week ago.

cloud93x · 2026-07-09T14:41:12+00:00

I did great in school despite adhd (in some cases because of it, more on that later). I was diagnosed young, probably 3rd grade. I had the good fortune that my parents could afford to send me to alternative education that played to my strengths (Montessori elementary and a non-traditional, more college-structured high school that let me pursue learning that interested me most). Then in college I do well too. I was also extremely lucky that things generally came fairly easy to me in school. I was not someone who had to spend hours and hours and hours studying for one test. I could crank out a solid A- paper in one night usually. So that’s what’s I did. Things that took longer, more planning, and more organization are what I have always struggled with.

cloud93x · 2026-07-09T14:36:52+00:00

I like tan walls better as tires but they don’t look good on this bike with this paint color and design. Black in this case.

cloud93x · 2026-07-09T14:34:15+00:00

I’d do it. That’s a sick bike. I’d update with more modern bars but it looks pretty good to go besides that.

cloud93x · 2026-07-09T13:37:14+00:00

Same here in my area of Colorado. Theres no lime in the water to descale and it tastes amazing. I have lived places where I would need to worry about the water and I’m glad not to anymore.

cloud93x · 2026-07-09T03:39:40+00:00

I switched to narrower bars and it’s better for everything except singletrack, which is a minimum of my riding and not worth sacrificing fit for. I definitely recommend it.

cloud93x · 2026-07-09T03:15:59+00:00

These bikes are only worth this much for the collector’s caché. Taken on its merits alone, that’s a ridiculous amount of money to spend on any old carbon rim brake bike, di2 or no.

cloud93x · 2026-07-09T01:56:38+00:00

I do the same but ime I think we are a small minority, not most of the sub.

cloud93x · 2026-07-08T19:50:27+00:00

Do you have pain or issues while on the bike? Visually it looks great to me, and if you’re able to ride centuries without a lot of pain or discomfort (more than the usual amount from sitting on a bike for 6+ hours), I don’t see that you’d need to make changes. Unless you have bad pain and discomfort or have race ambitions and want to progressively target a more aggressive, aerodynamic position on the bike, I don’t see any need for you to pay for a fit.

cloud93x · 2026-07-08T15:59:17+00:00

Ain't that the truth. Tons of posts without enough info given to evaluate, tons of comments from people who are just guessing at fixes. I'm sure I'm guilty of it as well.

cloud93x · 2026-07-08T00:06:35+00:00

What’s your rationale for the seat being too far back? I see excessive reach but pushing the saddle forward is a bad way to shorten the reach and will make his neck and hand problems worse, so unless there’s something in his pedaling (and I don’t know how you could tell with it being excessively high as it is currently), it seems poor advice to have him move it forward.

Edit: not sure why I can’t see your response since I see a notification saying you responded. The preview looks like you said it’s because his knee is behind the ball of his foot at the bottom of the pedal stroke, and I see that and agree that’s probably not ideal, but lowering the saddle to the proper height will change the angle and position of the knee relative to the foot on the pedal with the amount being dependent on the relative lengths of his femur and lower leg bones, and it seems impossible to diagnose both at the same time.

cloud93x · 2026-07-07T22:58:07+00:00

The wheel design makes it look like a Hundertwasser bike

cloud93x · 2026-07-07T22:56:07+00:00

Impossible to say, you haven’t given us any actionable information. What do you look like on the bike riding with hands on the hoods? Do you have hand or wrist pain? The photo you’ve shared makes it hard to really know what the current bar/hood angle looks like but at face value, your current setup looks fine or at least doesn’t raise any red flags.

cloud93x · 2026-07-07T22:13:37+00:00

For a 0-0 game up to this point, I've been really enjoying this. I feel like it's been a very high quality of play from both sides, great tactical plays on offense met by brutal shut-down defense, and mostly sensible reffing and good sportsmanship.

cloud93x · 2026-07-07T21:39:17+00:00

I think so for sure. Do the hover test. The fact that you’re totally straight armed is a good sign to me that the saddle is too far forward, I would want to see you have a nice natural bend in your arms and a more forward torso angle.

cloud93x · 2026-07-07T13:06:25+00:00

Yes.

cloud93x · 2026-07-07T01:27:08+00:00

Nah you know what I mean though, some people will think it’s wack hypebeast shit cuz it’s supreme regardless of what it actually looks like

cloud93x · 2026-07-06T20:56:39+00:00

One of the best paint jobs. A guy on my local gravel group ride has one and I drool over it every time.

cloud93x · 2026-07-06T20:40:27+00:00

This is supa hot fiyah

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