The 1999 Joe Starck Riv road custom has for >25 years been my Platonic archetype of bicycle fit and feel, and my body, torso and shoulders and arms and hands, in particular, just fit “instinctively: reasonable bend for power and aero, easy to use hooks and hoods and flats. One just “falls into” the right position.
So I try to set up all my other bikes to mimic that fit and feel, and I’ve pretty much succeeded with the Matthews road bike for dirt and the Roadeo, despite a ~3-4 cm higher bar and 10 cm stem on the dirt road Matthews, and a much different stem — 90 mm, + 30* — on the Roadeo, versus 80 mm, 3-4 cm below saddle, for the Starck. The 2020 Matthews IGH fixed gear road bike is a geometric clone of the ’99, but despite using the same seatposts, saddles, stems, bar, brake levers dialed in exactly the same way, so I thought, the reach just felt a wee bit too long. This once again annoyed me on today’s errand ride, so after some more compulsive measuring I decided that I’d missed the exact bar/stem height by a couple of mm, and raised the bar by a scant 1/4” — scant in the sense used in recipes. Transformation! So do such miniscule adjustments make big differences. I’m very glad, as the Matt IGH fixed gear gets a lot of miles. Alhamdulilla! -- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgug8KzKBOrjUMURNgr7c2KpN%2B-N1LWe16%3DrZRpJ9XuDew%40mail.gmail.com.
