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Used to ride a road bike with really high saddle and flew to work at 100mph (ok not quite)
Trouble is, I run my Mountain bike with a low saddle so when I was getting on it after the road bike I was getting ruined. I recently sold the road bike and bought a MTB for work set up exactly the same. Riding to work is a chore but I feel much happier once I get it (or the other one) off road.
Like Convert, my knees give me a bit of trouble - I can tell if my seatpost's slipped much more than about 5mm, any more than 10-20mm and they'll start clicking - so I keep my seat pretty high. But I can still get my backside off the back of the saddle (flite), or even behind it - it just needs a little more planning to do so. I might drop it on a long descent, but not if I was gonna be sitting down to pedal
Don't know to be honest, but what I do know is that since doing a lot of road miles (inc commuting every day on a SS Plug) I've had to raise the saddles on both of my MTB's by about an inch.
Does make getting on the Nic kinda tricky due to the high BB though.
I've just dropped mine an inch because it was pulling my knees and hip joints apart. I only noticed it the next day when I was walking like John Wayne. Oh and also I couldn't bunnyhop because I kept whacking the saddle into my nuts.
Not good
[url= http://www.bikeradar.com/fitness/article/technique-how-to-get-your-seat-height-right-14608 ]Bike Radar article[/url] just to confuse matters 🙂