You might look at your saddle position. Peter Jon White has much good to say about where to put it so that your torso and not your arms hold you up. It works for me.
In fact, it was Grant long ago who told me, get your saddle back and your bars up and back, and it fixed my position problems. Note that "bars up and back" meant 8 cm extension and 3-5 cm below bar instead of 140 mm extension and 5 inches below bar. Broken record: butt back helps your torso hold itself up. Patrick "long torso" Moore On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Peter M <[email protected]> wrote: > And boy are my arms tired. Out for a late night ride so rode over to > the shore path but by the time I got back my arms were killing me. I > have been juggling a few different bikes lately but my latest setup is > a 56cm Homer (650b-Hetres) with a 10cm technomic and Albatross bars, > about 1 inch above the saddle. I rode MTBs for most of my youth then > fixies for a while with bullhorn bars so not sure if it is an issue of > the bars being too close or not. I finally did a proper measurement > and have a 85pbh and am 5'11" with a longish torso. I was looking at > a Bombadil so I could stay with 650b and to possibly to try and strech > me out a bit but was thinking that the 52 would be basically the same > as what I have now but the 56 might be a bit tight with standover. Was > told by Rivendell that I could go either way but I ride in NYC so I > do need to straddle the top tube every now and then at the longer > traffic lights. I cant see doing any actual MTBing outside of fire > trails so not so concerned about bail outs over the top tube. I am > throwing myself to the knowledge of the group here yet again to see if > anyone has some wise words. Thank you all. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- ------------------------- Patrick Moore, Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW http://resumespecialties.com/index.html ------------------------- A billion stars go spinning through the night Blazing high above your head; But in you is the Presence that will be When all the stars are dead. Rainer Maria Rilke, Buddha in Glory -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
