Can we see a pic of the bike? Try putting your saddle in KOPS. If the saddle is shoved too far back, KOPS Will bring it forward without damaging anything on your body. KOPS is a pretty neutral place to start. When one sets up a saddle it is not to get closer to the bars it is to move your body into a position relative to your bottom bracket for efficient peddling. But in In your case if the saddle is all the way back on the rails this will also bring you closer in reach so it may help in both areas.
You could also raise the stem without going over a minimum insertion point while keeping the wedge below the threaded part of your steerer. Also, and this is why I wanted to see the picture, if your brake levers are too far forward on the curve of the drop bars you can rotate them upwards towards the ramps some more which can get them a couple centimeters closer to you, shortening the reach. Another thing you can do while riding is to find a place on the handlebars that your hands feel the most comfortable in the ramps position mimicking where your hands would be resting on the brake levers. Then subtract the centimeters from your existing brake levers where your hands would rest on them to where your hands are now in the most comfortable position and get a stem with an extension that is that much shorter. Don’t be ashamed to go short extension. I use a 6 cm at extension on my Sam, Ram, and Bleriot. Others here do too. You could also get more compact handlebars which have a short ramps reach. -- 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.
