Review on 🚴 Saris Stackable Climbing Blocks: Enhance Your Indoor Bike Training Experience by Mark Powell

# This climbing block has three inclines. In truth, we're talking about the fractional degree difference in elevation between each shot. I really wanted to like this product but it has a few small design flaws. good things first It's 110% strong. Unlike other indoor training levels, this one sits much higher around the bike tire giving you incredible stability. You can get out of the saddle if you want and even lean a little from side to side, which keeps the bike stable. I love it. My BIGGEST PROBLEM is that there is no such thing as perfect alignment. I use this with a Cycleops Magnus Smart Trainer and with my 700c road bike mounted on the rear of the trainer and this riser in the lowest position in the front, my bike is at a 4 degree angle. That's more important than it seems. The problem I have is that during long 60-90 minute workouts on this incline, my seat forces a certain valuable part of the male body to go to sleep in the lumbar region. The problem is that even though my bike is tilted, because I'm standing on a flat surface, my body drives forward as if I'm standing up straight. This causes the seat to rise so high forward that it causes problems. I can do 100 miles of gran fondos in this seat and cycling shorts, no problem, long flat rides with the seat down 4 degrees makes the riding unnatural. I could try tilting my seat down to compensate, but most seats aren't designed to tilt down 4 degrees and it would be a nightmare to put it back on the scale if I did use a bicycle on the street. Although I tilted the seat unnaturally to compensate, my head tube is now significantly taller (by an inch or more) which makes training in the aero position really uncomfortable. Why isn't there a "level" option on this riser? I know it's called a climbing block, but I assumed one of the settings would be flat and the other two would each add a few degrees of incline. In reality, however, these three settings are almost indistinguishable and there is no level adjustment. Another design I'd like to have is small numbers stamped into each groove to indicate either the degree of increase, or even just settings 1, 2 and 3. As I said, they're almost indistinguishable. Using a tape measure, I had to figure out which was the lowest, middle, and highest. If this information were printed into an injection mold to be part of the plastic then this information would be useful. I'd love to use that, but without level control it makes the rides very miserable.