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  Bicycle Saddles
Saddles with excessive padding are also a common cause of painful chafing of the inner thigh, as rides become longer.
A common buzzword in saddle construction is "gel", which is often touted as a cure-all.
A properly shaped leather saddle is an excellent choice for the high-mileage rider who doesn't mind the fact that it is a bit heavier than a plastic saddle.
www.sheldonbrown.com /saddles.html   (4412 words)

  
  Saddle - LoveToKnow 1911
The word is also applied to many objects resembling a saddle in shape or function, such as a block to support a spar in a ship, or in machinery to support a rod, or in masonry the top or "apex stone" of the gable of a roof, andc.
When the bays of the windows are wide, the lead lights are further strengthened by upright bars, passing through eyes forged on the saddle bars, and called stanchions.
When saddle bars pass right through the mullions in one piece, and are secured to the jambs, they have sometimes been called "stay bars."
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Saddle   (236 words)

  
 saddle - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Saddle, leather seat used in riding animals, including horses, mules, and camels.
The most popular types of professional grafting are splice grafting, whip or tongue grafting, saddle grafting, cleft grafting, and side grafting.
This style is used almost exclusively when riding the American saddle horse and the Tennessee walking horse.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=saddle   (167 words)

  
 Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Glossary Sa--So
This type of saddle requires care and careful breaking in, but when this is done the classic leather saddle moulds itself to fit the particular anatomical shape of its rider.
Leather saddles are particularly well suited to long-distance tourists, and have their greatest advantage in hot weather, because they are porous and able to breathe, unlike plastic saddles which have closed-cell foam (also known as "gel") as a cushion.
This type is also commonly referred to as "microadjusting" because it permits a finer degree of adjustment of the saddle angle.
www.sheldonbrown.com /gloss_sa-o.html   (4241 words)

  
 Saddle Road
Saddle Road is the shortest route between the east and west side of the island, and as a result is widely used by island residents and a limited number of sight-seers, despite its poor condition.
Saddle Road has become an important cross-island link between the county seat of Hilo, the northern town of Waimea, the district of Kona, and the resort areas of the Kohala Coast.
Saddle Road is used as two-way access, yet traffic lanes with poor pavement, and inadequate shoulders encourage motorists to drive in the center of the road.
www.saddleroad.com /05nl1.html   (1539 words)

  
  Bicycle Saddles
Saddles with excessive padding are also a common cause of painful chafing of the inner thigh, as rides become longer.
A common reason for keeping the saddle set too low is that most bicyclists have never learned the proper technique for mounting and dismounting, so they find it convenient to be able to put a foot down to steady the bicycle while they are stopped.
The saddle is mounted on a seat post, which telescopes into the seat tube of the bicycle frame.
sheldonbrown.com /saddles.html   (4125 words)

  
 saddle. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Saddles of various types include the packsaddle, to which the load of a pack animal is secured; the camel saddle; the howdah, used by riders of elephants; and the saddle used by riders of horses.
The Moorish saddle, which was used extensively by cowboys in the United States, has a horn which is essential in using the lasso.
The English saddle has padding, and the stirrup is hung farther forward than on the Moorish saddle or the McClellan saddle, neither of which is padded.
www.bartleby.com /65/sa/saddle.html   (353 words)

  
 Duett Saddles: The Partnership of Horse & Rider
If your saddle is too narrow, the front will not be able to fit down on the back/shoulders of the horse, and the whole saddle will tilt back.
Do keep in mind that the way the saddle sits on the horse will change when their is (your) weight in the saddle.
Keep this in mind also: both slight imbalance (assuming the saddle bars are the right width) and bridging are easily corrected by a saddle fitter in a saddle with wool flocking.
www.duettsaddles.com /fitting.htm   (1059 words)

  
 Saddle Fit
This quality saddle is engineered to position the base body weight of the rider in the most natural place on the horse's back, which is near the 15th vertebrae.
The Hope Saddle seat is designed to position the rider's body on his/her pelvic floor, at or near the 15th vertebrae of the horse.
This saddle has been placed directly behind the scapula, (shoulder blade) to avoid hindering the horse's movement, but most importantly, to avoid saddle sores and behavior problems.
www.jjmaxwell.com /saddle_fit.htm   (638 words)

  
 Saddle Fitting - Nine Points to a Perfect Fit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
With the saddle correctly placed on the horse's back--and the horse still standing squarely--Freeze now instructs us to look at the lowest point of the seat, which, in most cases, is centered between the pommel (the front of the saddle) and the cantle (the back of the saddle) as well as level.
If, however, the saddle is sitting slightly low behind--and as long as the saddle tree is not too narrow--a saddle fitter may be ale to add flocking to the back of the panel to raise the cantle.
The points of the saddle tree determine the saddle's width, and this is probably the most important aspect of evaluating a saddle's suitability for a particular horse.
www.equisearch.com /horses_riding_training/tack_apparel/english/eq9points447/index.html   (2776 words)

  
 SaddleGuy
The saddle is the most comfortable for them that they ever sat in but guess what, they get the saddle home, ride the horse for a week or so and the horse's back becomes sore.
When the flocking is compressed or the saddle you are using is foam filled, you might want to consider a complete reflock in which the seat and panels are separated and the panels are filled with new wool.
The saddle should not sit so low as to hit the horses spinous process’ nor should the channel be so narrow that when the horse bends, a pressure occurs on the spine.
www.saddleguy.com /demystified.html   (2127 words)

  
 Online Etymology Dictionary
The Latin suffix is not etymologically connected with able, but it long has been popularly associated with it, and this has contributed to its survival as a living suffix.
It is related to the second syllable of rudder and saddle.
Pack-horse is from c.1475; packsaddle "saddle for supporting packs on the back of a mount" is from 1388 (pakke sadil).
www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=saddle   (606 words)

  
 Saddlebags- Motorcycle Saddlebags : CafePress.com
One big advantage of a Leather Up saddle bag compared to a Harley Davidson saddle bag and leather motorcycle luggage is there are a number of bags that are also back rests.
An inner shell of a bag with a hard shell, helps the motorcycle saddle bags to not be crushed the same as hard sided luggage.
When looking for saddle bags for Harley Davidsons you will frequently find that other motorcycle bags don’t have a way to lock the bag and/or lock the bags to your motorcycle.
www.cafepress.com /seatsaddlebags   (488 words)

  
 Saddle Fitting
The English saddle was actually developed by the Germans as a lightweight solution for war horses to enable moving faster and jumping higher than the enemy.
Especially watch for lines of sweat or dryness that tend to indicate the saddle is resting on either the top line of the bars without resting on the entire bars, or if the saddle is resting on the bottom line and not touching the top line.
Saddles are designed for the entire bar width to rest in alignment, properly and fully along the line of the horse's back.
www.culturedcowboy.com /saddles/saddlefit.htm   (2790 words)

  
 Saddle (hypar) Surfaces
The hyperbolic paraboloid or hypar or saddle is one of the nine real quadric surfaces and one of the six which are ruled.
The model with eight saddles can be made to resemble a schooner if the two narrow (colored) triangles are cut in the shape of triangular sails and the base is cut in the shape of a ship's bow.
The saddle as a developable surface can be continuously transformed from a plane two dimensional lamina into a shallow saddle and gradually into a deep saddle.
www.faculty.fairfield.edu /jmac/rs/saddles.htm   (1920 words)

  
 Saddle Fitting
Australian saddles are measured by using a straight rule, and running it from the stitched seam in the front, to the inside of the back of the cantle.
Western saddles are measured from the rider side of the horn, back to the top of the cantle, and English saddles are measured from the button in the front, diagonally back to the top of the cantle.
This happens when the saddle is hitting the front of the horse, and the back, but not the center.
www.aussiesaddle.com /saddlefit.htm   (1748 words)

  
 How to Saddle a Horse | eHow.com
Saddling your horse takes just a few minutes but is a very important part of the pre-ride preparation.
Saddle your horse - After you have tightened the cinch to ride, walk your horse in a wide circle before mounting so that the horse will relax and you will be able to retighten the cinch for a safer ride.
Saddle sores - If your horse has sensitive skin, or is sore from a saddle that is too small, try walking around with you horse while he has his saddle on.
www.ehow.com /how_7464_saddle-horse.html   (599 words)

  
 Saddle Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The saddles are covered with unadorned leather or in the case of synthetic saddles, they are covered with either a leather-look or fabric covering.
Nowadays most English saddles are stuffed with either closed cell or other type of foam or a mixture of wool and acrylic fibers, depending on the style of the saddle.
These saddles are often used by lower level eventers, who compete in all three aspects of eventing, but who are not ready for the financial outlay of purchasing separate saddles for the dressage and jumping phases.
www.equisearch.com /horses_riding_training/tack_apparel/saddlefacts/index.html   (733 words)

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