Evening folks,
in my simple head increasing the negative rise/drop of a stem increases the reach, non?
If so would/should/ought you reduce the stem length too?
Possibly looking at going from -5 degrees to -15 degrees.
What be the forum thoughts?
Move saddle forward slightly?
Unless you have a pretty long stem already, I doubt it would make that big of a difference. As above, just move the saddle forward a bit.
in reality -5 and -15deg stems will both still be achieving a positive angle of rise once fitted to a bicycle steerer (Assuming a typical 74-62deg head angle)
Using a 100mm stem as an example for ease of calculation. Swapping from -5deg to -15deg will lower your bar clamp height by around 17.5mm and only alter its forwards reach by a negligible amount (Somewhere around 1.5mm)
if your aim is to lower your bars and the bike already has 15-20mm of spacers under the current stem save your money just swap some from below to above.
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Past a certain age negative rise is just one of those things you have to accept.
Past a certain age negative rise is just one of those things you have to accept.
In geometry terms, perhaps from now on we should refer to negative rise as droop.
I have my xc bike's stem pointing down, and this is with flat bars (swept flat bars) and 70mm stem length, and no spacers under the stem. It feels great. My xc bike is quite slack for an xc bike so maybe this makes a difference.