Dave, There is much good advice here already. My main bikes are a 58cm LHT with Albatross and a 56 Atlantis with noodles. The Surly set up came first, and I had discovered a sweet spot up in the bends of the Albatross for comfort on longer and faster rides. When I set up the noodles on the Atlantis, I took measurements first of the Surly with Albatross bars (bar height relative to saddle, distance to saddle, etc). I then set up the Atlantis so that the position of my hands on the brake hoods was the same distance to the bends on the Albatross bars. To get the reach right, I used a dirt drop stem with the noodles. All the best, Erl
On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 12:53:52 PM UTC-4, Tim wrote: > > If the hoods feel like a reach, maybe you need a shorter stem. I usually > can tell right away if a bar setup will work for me. I ride noodles on my > 63 Hilsen, with a 10cm Technomic, a little above seat height, and it's > perfect. I've ridden it thousands of miles. I got a 63cm Roadeo, set it up > with a 10cm Tallux and Mark's bars and felt like you do, a little over > reached for the hoods. I switched to a dirt drop stem which was much better > but I had it slammed down so could not lower the bars. Finally found a 6cm > Technomic and it is the ticket. The bike fits great now. I would give your > current cockpit a couple more rides then maybe consider a stem switch. BTW, > I prefer the Noodles to the Mark's Bar. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
