Sandra6
Veteran
Without wishing to be critical, that's the wrong way to establish your saddle height. If you want to touch the floor, get off the saddle. The correct saddle height is a distance measured between your saddle and the pedal, when at the furthest point from it...
The problem with that is that I wouldn't be able to touch the floor! That's too scary. lol.
I've been to the LBS this morning and they made a few suggestions - one being that I train myself out of the bad habit of scooching so far back to go up hills! The other was to either try a longer stem or to replace the seat post with one that will allow me to move the seat a couple of cm further back. Both suggestions will cost me £20 -£30 And I will have to wait for the part as the only stem they had in stock was black and my bars are shiny silver, and that's so not a good look for me.