Tis the season to be putting on more miles and I am experiencing more pronounced lower back pain. For some reason climbing makes it even worse. I feel like my bars are too far forward for me but don't wan't to launch on a stem buying spree without some scientific study and addl input from group members. The facts:
64cm Ram with the bars about 3cm over saddle height, 60cm cockpit w/a 12cm stem and a VO wayback seatpost w/a brooks B17. I am tall with long torso & short arms. When I look at my front hub thru my bars the hub is about an inch ahead of the line made by the bars (but since the bars are up so high this point is essentially moot). What I think is probably the most telling issue is that my knees remain about 7" away from my bars (measured horizontally from each other from a purely eyeballed vertical plane separating my knee from the bars). The method I used to take this measurement was to spin backwards holding onto the wall looking straight down at a tape measure to judge the imaginary horizontal distance from the farthest forward progress of the knee. Has anyone else faced this challenge? Solution? Does the "knee-bar quotient" seem like a rational metric. Anyone else care to share their number? Bruce in Seattle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
