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Add a picture of you sat on it so we can decide if it fits 🙂
Loving the wailing and gnashing of teeth my 70mm stem has caused the purists....f@$k,'em....the bike was fine when new two years ago with a 110mm stem but things change, I'm older, I'm not as flexible....and I refuse to use a ridiculous stack of spacers under the stem....so I just shortened the cockpit instead, much better, more miles on the bike and if I bend my elbows I can still get as low as I used to.May post a pic when I get home just to really upset people!
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I'm not upset; I just care about your road cycling experience; hence why I bother to spend time drawing red lines on pictures of men in lycra. Thought I'd give something back to STW since I get abuse for "trolling" all the time.
Give it a go; put your 110mm back on and slam it; push your saddle back and get your hips swivelled forward. Comfortable for hours in the saddle, high speed down hills will feel far better, as will out of the saddle climbing.
I just can't get it straight in my mind how anything can be comfortable angled down like that. Surely it's a relic of the past that will be slowly forgotten
Are you suggesting that for the first 60-70 years* of drop bar use that nobody was comfortable?
It is from the past, but things were different in the past, in the past the hoods were not the default position, bars were at different heights, brake levers were different shapes and all sorts.
Older/different shaped bars are not 'wrong' and they still have their place on some types of bikes, it's just that they don't play all that well with modern STIs and frame geometries, but then not everyone uses modern STI's and not everyone has a default modern shaped frame.
I do agree with DT and Ti-Red etc. though OP, some modern compacts would probably suit your current setup better.
*not to scupper my own point but flat ramps are actually NOT a new thing, flat ramps with parallel drops were around as early as the 20's but with much longer reach and designed for traditional brake levers, bars have been through a lot of variations and trends over the years to keep up with changes in riding, changes in kit and fashion. The number of shapes and variants is staggering when you look into it, some of them are for very specific uses/shapes of people but they all have their uses!
definatley try some of the FSA compact bars there around 20 - 25 quid...fixed all my woes and i can know use all the bar postions comfortably..i have the tops to hoods almost horizontal and the drops are horizontal too..the widths are measured differently tho so check that..its all on the fsa site.
I refuse to use a ridiculous stack of spacers under the stem
Hypocritical when bashing the "purists" for the short stem choice 😉