The Revolution Report #14: Exciting Announcements and the Pelvis-Saddle Connection
Exciting Announcements and the Pelvis-Saddle Connection
🚲 Comfort and Power On the Bike 🚲
Thank you for subscribing to our bi-monthly newsletter! 🎉 We’re thrilled to have you as part of our community, and even more excited to be a part of your cycling comfort and performance journey! Twice a month you can look forward to us sharing some information regarding the topics below!
🗒️ Business Updates: Stay informed about the latest news and announcements from our bike fitting business.
💪 Movement Health Tips: Get expert advice to improve your mobility, build strength, and elevate your quality of life.
🚴 Bike Fitting and Performance Education: Gain simple, practical insights into understanding your bike and why an individualized fit matters.
🙌 Community Highlights: Meet our trusted health and wellness partners and discover how they can support your goals.
📆 Workshops & Events: Be the first to know about our interactive workshops and learning opportunities to help you take charge of your health.
🚴♀️ NOW LET’S DIVE IN 🚴♂️
Business Updates:
We’re excited to share that Revolution Bike Fitting has been nominated as one of Carmel’s Top Bike Shops in the 2025 Carmel Community Votes! 🚴♂️💥
If we’ve helped you ride stronger, more efficiently, or pain-free, your support means the world to us. Our mission has always been simple — to help cyclists of every level find comfort, performance, and power through precision fitting and whole-body movement insight.
👉 Here’s how to vote:
1️⃣ Go to Vote HERE!!!
2️⃣ Select Retail Store → Bike Shops
3️⃣ Choose Revolution Bike Fitting and click Vote!
Every vote helps more riders discover a place that prioritizes their comfort, health, and performance — not just their bike setup.
Thank you for trusting us to help you ride your best and for supporting a local business that’s redefining what bike fitting can be!!!
Movement Health Tips:
🔥 STAY TUNED!!! 🔥
We’ve got two exciting launches coming soon to help you take your performance and recovery to the next level:
1️⃣ The Divergent Wellness & Recovery Room
Your new go-to for complete restoration and performance care — featuring our Sunlighten Infrared Sauna, InBody body composition scale, and some of the latest in Hyperice recovery technology. Whether you’re training hard, rehabbing, or simply prioritizing your wellness, this space is designed to help you move, recover, and feel your best.
2️⃣ An Upcoming Private Online Community
We’re building an exclusive digital platform where you’ll gain access to movement tips, educational content, and courses created by expert physical therapists from Divergent Rehab & Wellness and bike fitting specialist Dr. Tyler Holt. It’s the next evolution in how we educate and empower you to ride stronger and live better — anytime, anywhere.
👉 Stay tuned for official launch announcements, membership options, and early access invites!
Disclaimer: The information provided in this newsletter is for educational purposes only, and is not a substitute for individualized professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Please seek a qualified healthcare professional when it comes to your unique pains, case, findings, health, etc.
Bike Fitting and Performance Education:
Over the next few months of this newsletter, I will be diving into separate pain-points that I commonly see as a Bike Fitter and give you some tips on how to start addressing them to keep you moving forward on your cycling journey!
🧭 The Pelvis–Saddle Connection: Comfort and Power on the Bike
Where You Should Feel Pressure? 🤔
Your pelvis is the foundation of your position on the bike…
On road and gravel bikes,pressure should rest mainly on your sit bones (ischial tuberosities) — not the soft tissue.
Triathletes/time-trial riderslean forward more, sopressure shifts slightly toward the front of the pelvis but should still avoid the perineum.
Mountain bikersvary position often, but when seatedshould feel even support under the sit bones.
A recent study showed that pelvic rotation directly changes where pressure builds — upright riders experienced greater perineal load than forward-leaning ones (García-López et al., Sports Eng., 2023).
Common Pelvic Complaints
Most saddle discomfort starts with how your pelvis interacts with the seat:
Saddle sores/chafing →too much movement or friction from unstable pelvic contact.
Numbness or “pins and needles”→excessive forward pelvic tilt, saddle too high, or narrow saddle nose causing soft-tissue compression.
Low-back or one-sided pain→uneven pelvic pressure or height differences between sides.
In essence: if you feel pressure in soft tissue instead of bone, something in your setup needs attention.
Quick Fixes for Pelvic Discomfort
✅ Level your saddle: Keep the nose close to horizontal. A slight downward tilt is fine but too much increases forward slide and soft-tissue pressure.
✅ Check height and fore/aft: A high saddle causes rocking; too low increases posterior tilt and back strain.
✅ Dial in saddle width: It should match your sit-bone spacing.
✅ Work on hip/core control: A stable pelvis reduces pressure shifts and keeps you balanced through the pedal stroke.
✅ Adjust handlebar reach: Too long or low can force anterior tilt and perineal compression.
How Pelvic Position Impacts Performance
The pelvis connects leg power to the rest of the body. A stable, well-aligned pelvis means:
🔥Better power transfer— less wasted motion, smoother force delivery.
🔥Improved comfort and endurance— you can hold position longer with less fatigue.
🔥Enhanced glute activation— a slightly anterior pelvic tilt can open hip angles and improve wattage output at the same effort.
A 2024 systematic review found that optimizing pelvic and hip angles significantly affects cycling efficiency and performance (Ferguson et al., J Sports Sci, 2024).
⚙️ Pro Tip: How to Find Your Ideal Saddle Width
You don’t need fancy tools to estimate saddle width —just a piece of cardboard and some chalk.
Place the cardboard on a carpeted step or low stool.
Sit down barefoot with your feet elevated slightly (so your weight is on your sit bones).
Stand up and look for two small indents — those are your sit bones.
Measure the center-to-center distance and add 20–30 mm to find your ideal saddle width.
This quick test helps ensure the saddle supports your bones — not soft tissue — which means better comfort, power, and endurance.
Community Highlights
We have some amazing people around us in the surrounding communities, and we cannot wait to start highlighting our partners! Check out our Partners Page to see who we collaborate with, and if you want to learn more about someone not sponsored in this month’s newsletter please reach out to us and we will connect you to more information…or to them!
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To your health and success,
The Team at Revolution Bike Fitting
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