Yea - Slam it, and get some tri bars while your at it!! ;) Yea, Aaron encouraged me. Its not for all, but with that old-timey quill stem, its an easy test.
For touring, I like the bars even, for harder efforts, I like them lower. Higher led to shoulder pain. But its different for everybody. Of course, Albatross'ss'ss'ss are a cure. But high up up up without a sprung saddle, you might end up with pain elsewhere in the you-know-what. And they isolate the quads more... unless you SLAM them! On Monday, April 2, 2012 7:35:19 PM UTC-7, Aaron Thomas wrote: > > 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/-/qSe_PQFy718J. 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.
