On today's ride I raised my stem a cm (which also brings the bars back slightly. I think that may be the jam, the best of all possible worlds. Lots of climbing with single track, and it felt great.
With abandon, Patrick On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 5:26:30 PM UTC-6, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > I thought my Hunqapillar stem (9cm Tallux) was pretty dialed in. However, > after riding my Quickbeam with a shorter stem and simultaneously moving my > seat back half the difference, pedaling feels more direct and powerful, > position more dialed in on the QB than before. Which has me wondering if I > went shorter with the Hunqapillar stem, would I prefer it? Possibly > shifting to a 7cm Tallux would do it. I don’t want to go too short because: > > — Climbs: Current stem allows for enough weight on the front wheel that > steep single-track climbs without anything on the front rack (day rides) to > climb well. The shorter the stem, the harder it is to weight the front > wheel on climbs. > > Thoughts, ideas? > > With abandon, > Patrick > > www.OurHolyConception.org <http://www.ourholyconception.org> > www.MindYourHeadCoop.org <http://www.mindyourheadcoop.org> > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
