This isn't specific to a Rivendell bike, but I'm sure the conversation can be applied to them, so hope you don't mind...
In addition to my Roadini, I have a Salsa Fargo. I had it for a year before I got the Roadini, the Roadini replaced my road bike (that is now the dedicated bike on the smart trainer, which I ride as little as possible!). I've had on-and-off upper body discomfort on the Fargo, and I think it's due to the high stack height. I'm using a 55mm Redshift stem on the Fargo right now, as low as it can go on the steerer tube (thin spacer below). I have drop bars on it (same drops as on the Roadini). The hoods are nearly 2cm higher than the saddle vs. the Roadini (Roadini around 1cm higher, Fargo around 3cm higher). Roadini feels just perfect, Fargo feels like I'm lifting my shoulders up to place my hands on the hoods. And my hands on the hoods is not not comfortable. I've now tried two different brifters, different positions on the bars, and the bars rotated down and up all to no solution. Does anyone have their hoods 3cm+ higher than their saddle and if so, is this comfortable for you? We're all different and I'm sure some like the bars (hoods) much lower than the saddle, some level, some higher; but I see a diminishing return with the hoods too high. -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ab5a800f-1902-42b4-bea3-54c15e89ea1dn%40googlegroups.com.
