Thanks for the advice so far. In my area, I honestly wouldn't trust anyone to do a good bike fit. Maybe I'm wrong. The only shops in my area are Specialized/Trek/Giant shops and I've just been unimpressed with the answers to most of my questions.
I went home and measured to get exact figures. Top of handlebar is actually 5cms below saddle height, and I took the stem out to measure. It's a beautiful fillet brazed piece, painted to match the bike. The thing is, the paint stops below the point where it's currently set, and there's only 3cm left until you hit the top of the wedge anyways, so I'm pretty sure this is a quill stem that's not actually meant to be adjustable. It's good to know that the main thing I can do to feel less stretched is to shorten the stem, and I'm pretty sure any stem I buy will have 5cm more of adjustability than the current one to get the bars to saddle height should I desire. My biggest hangup is taking off this beautiful painted to match stem. I kind of feel like I should just keep riding for a while to see if I can get used to it. If I'm honest, I think the stretched out feeling will start to become more natural, I'm just not sure if I'll get used to the neck craning having the bars nearly 2 inches below saddle height, combined with them being far away. -- 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.
