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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Leather Saddle Update
Date: 21 May 2025 16:12:02 GMT
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zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
I’m sure though not to the same level as say 90’s MTB even the CX bike I
had with truely woeful cantis, while did I did need to keep pulling and
quite hard, and generally focused more on braking than on the Gravel bike
with discs, wasn’t enough to give me sore arms I am admittedly fairly
solidly built and all that.

Ie good reasons that MTB’s went disk first.

Roger Merriman