If you first accept that KOPS even matters, then, yeah, you still have to navigate the survivorship bias.
Though, KOPS doesn't apply so much for MTB. Evidenced by contemporary STAs, and slammed forward saddles before the great steepening: people care about weight distribution in climbing position more than getting a precise leg alignment measure on flat ground. And less sitting and spinning for extended periods when trail riding: if half your ride is out of the saddle, is the biomechanics of the saddle position only half as important?
KOPS makes so many other assumptions about the rest of the body being in a good position anyway, I never understood it as a goal rather than a starting point, much like suspension sag.
Dec. 2, 2023, 10:15 a.m. - Justin White
If you first accept that KOPS even matters, then, yeah, you still have to navigate the survivorship bias. Though, KOPS doesn't apply so much for MTB. Evidenced by contemporary STAs, and slammed forward saddles before the great steepening: people care about weight distribution in climbing position more than getting a precise leg alignment measure on flat ground. And less sitting and spinning for extended periods when trail riding: if half your ride is out of the saddle, is the biomechanics of the saddle position only half as important? KOPS makes so many other assumptions about the rest of the body being in a good position anyway, I never understood it as a goal rather than a starting point, much like suspension sag.