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Subject: Re: Leather Saddle Update
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 10:14:30 -0400
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On 5/20/2025 5:43 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:
> Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 5/20/2025 2:00 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>> Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>> On 5/20/2025 8:02 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Only sore wrists/hands or rather arm pump is from 1980/90’s  MTB’s on long
>>>>> descents, where you could get for arm pump, some of my fellow Gravellers
>>>>> get arm pump ...
>>>>
>>>> What's "arm pump"? I'm unfamiliar with the term.
>>>>
>>> Sore fore arms from braking, on longer technical down hills, aka stuff your
>>> constantly reapplying the brakes.
>>
>> Ah. I remember my wife complaining about that from one long, steel
>> descent. She refused to ever ride that hill again.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
> I’ve not heard it ever used by roadies but MTBers whose terrain will push
> brakes rather harder, and why they have 4 pot and bigger rotors and so on.
> 
> This said my MTBing even at my weight two pot seems ample the SLX finned
> stuff I’ve yet to get it to fade, which I did with the original brake set,
> with the same rotors.
> 
> Roger Merriman
> 

Wrists, neck, and arms will get sore from braking down a long steep road 
descent.