Thanks for the input, Ed! Yes, my concern is primarily TT length being too long and causing the reach to be an issue. I need to bars to come back enough to keep me fairly upright without being cramped, but also (in the case of bars like the choco moose and others like Jones bars) giving me the ability to get more "aero" when I need to. I am close to your size, but think the 51cm Appa would probably be too big/long the in reach. That being said the Rivendell sizing of 46 (number-wise) throws me off since it's hard to relate that to other size frames I ride.
On both my SM and LHT I use very short stems (60mm or less) and with their TTs I have comfortable reach to the bars. Combined with the tall head tubes and my quill/steerer tubes very high, all is well in the comfort zone. I have a fistful of post on my LHT and maybe 1.5 fistful on my SM). The Appa has a more sloping TT so I would expect on the 46 I'd have easily more post showing, but I that would be ok as long as the TT is short enough, head tube long enough, and the choco-moose sweep back enough. Probably need to crunch the geo numbers more. Want to make sure the 46 would do the trick (without being too tiny with a skyscraper of a quill coming out of the head tube! :) Thanks, Sean -- 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.
