I bought a used Joe Appaloosa that had been purchased complete and tricked out really beautifully by its first owner-- many thoughtful choices about gear and parts to customize and/or upgrade from the Rivendell build. Among them is an Albastache bar, which is new to me; it's great. The bike fits me perfectly except for the fact that the stem, a Nitto 7 cm Chrystem, has too little height to raise the bars where I think they should be, which is maybe an inch above the saddle. I end up with a bit more weight on my arms and hands than I'd like; the stem, maxed out, sits about an inch below the nose of the saddle. I think it's going to take a different stem to jack up the bars, but before diving into that, two questions: first, does anyone have advice about stem lengths that generally work for these bars, and second, am I seeing this right? Do other Albastache riders generally run the stem height just at or above seat height, where I'm sort of aiming to put it?
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