I don't agree at all that someone with a long torso and average length of legs should use a longer setback seatpost to accommodate it.* Just picture yourself on a bike, and suddenly your spine is elongated 6 inches. Your legs haven't changed at all and neither should your saddle position.* What's called for is a longer frame with an appropriately long stem and bars that aren't overly swept back as that rather defeats the goal of accommodating your longer torso. While Kim says "I'm comfortable", sure the reach is now great, but you're also notably further back of the saddle than you need to be. From the photos of your Clem you showed the stem isn't very long for someone with a long torso, and Bosco bars aren't helping either. If you simply added in stem length the appx. amount of extra setback from the post(2-3cm), then you could return to a normal setback post and you keep the same reach.
>From my experience in being too far back as opposed to being in a normal setback position, is the onset of hamstring, back of knee and butt muscle pain. Not to mention feeling off center of the BB. Once I returned to a normal position, using my quads much more and my core muscles for support, all those went away and pedaling is notably more effective. What Jay described in adding his reach forward and using his core more effectively to accommodate his longer torso I can relate to. In my opinion sitting up and back on a bike is all wrong as you can't use your core muscles effectively. I get that people do it, and Riv promotes it, nevertheless, that's what I think of it. Anyone would be right to question what I speak of. I question everyone and myself too. Just because I don't have a bike shop or a title doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about tough, or that anyone who has a bike shop or a title does know what they're talking about. I've been to one "professional" fitter in my life, and their "advice" would have placed me on a frame with a much too short of top tube. I told them to add 3cm or no deal on the custom frame from them. I got the 3cm and I still joyfully ride that frame today. Enjoy the ride. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/3ad6786a-9370-43cd-a1a4-d708af3b5087n%40googlegroups.com.
