Stem-slamming jokes aside, Esteban's test is worth trying. I used to ride with my bars at or above saddle height, but after some experimentation found that bars lower than saddle height provided a much more comfortable arrangement.
Note, however, that I coupled this shift in bar height with a zero setback seatpost in place of a standard setback post I had been using. If you lower your bars, you may also want to ditch your VO wayback post and replace it with either a normal setback post or zero setback. On Monday, April 2, 2012 5:05:14 PM UTC-7, Bruce Curry wrote: > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/C2eY4BWZ0P0J. 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.
