Is it feasible for you to consult a competent bike-fitter? Having a conversation and an in-person consultation with somebody who knows what they are doing and understands you and your use-case well would be a good investment. Also decide if your body today is exactly the body you want to have. If you plan to ride more, get leaner, stronger and more flexible, you might want a fit that challenges you. If you are in the top condition and flexibility that you'll ever be, then you need it to fit perfectly right now. If you plan to get weaker and less flexible because of age, you might want to plan for that also. That consultation with a fitter could be invaluable.
Also, some people say 'stretched out' to mean they have too much weight on their hands. Counter-intuitively (for some) a fix to that can be sliding your saddle BACK and/or tilt it up. This gets your weight back off your hands, even though it makes the saddle to bars distance greater. Some iBobs slam their seat all the way back no matter what, even if they have a nice slack seat tube angle. Too stretched out can mean your saddle is too far back and moving it forward shortens the distance to your bars and balances you over the bike. Again, a fitter would see this. Best of luck BL in EC On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 7:54:10 AM UTC-7, Sean Steinle wrote: > > I'm feeling a bit too stretched out on my new rando bike with noodles. It > currently has a 110cm stem, and the bars are a good 2 or 3 cms below saddle > height. Can't raise the stem, it's a custom job and doesn't have any room > for extenstion. At least not that I feel comfortable with. Since it's > handmade, there's no max height line... > > As I set out to buy a new stem, I'm wondering, how much shorter do I go on > the stem if I plan to raise the bars to saddle height as well? I'm sure > it's dependent on HA & SA, but I'm wondering if there is a ballpark ratio > which says that raising your stem 1 cm is the same effect as shortening it > by X. Any real world experience to help me out? When you feel too stretched > out, do you focus on raising the bars or shortening the stem? > > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
