on 4/20/09 12:14 PM, Aaron Thomas at [email protected] wrote: > While the Romulus cooks pretty well in this guise with 25c Pro Race > tires, the one thing I keep butting up against is the body position > the bike seems to want to put me in. Far from the call to "Raise > d'bars", I cannot seem to get the bars low enough! At least not > without putting a drastically shorter stem on. > > At best, with my current stem, I can get the bars about level with the > saddle. Any lower and I feel much too stretched out. To get the bars > low enough to where I think I might like them, I'd have to swap a 9cm > stem for an 8 or even a 7! But I worry about how that might affect the > handling. > > Has anyone else had this difficulty of not being able to get the bars > low enough?
It actually sounds like you can get them low enough, but then the reach is longer. This isn't anything more than physics. Or, the recipricol of "Raise Dat Stem" - you drop the bars in relation to the saddle, and you effectively lengthen the reach. - Jim -- Jim Edgar [email protected] Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries - http://www.cyclofiend.com Current Classics - Cross Bikes Singlespeed - Working Bikes Send In Your Photos! - Here's how: http://www.cyclofiend.com/guidelines "I had to ride slow because I was taking my guerrilla route, the one I follow when I assume that everyone in a car is out to get me." -- Neal Stephenson, "Zodiac" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
