How do such short stems affect the handling of the Atlantis? I use stems on my Riv Roads that are short by conventional standards -- 8 cm, and I absolutely insist on drop bars with sufficiently long ramps (but short-hooded Shimano aero levers and not the very long brifter levers), and insist on a bar no higher than level with saddle, so no very short reach bar will do. To make up for a very long top tube with a very short stem and stubby bar sounds rather makeshift, but I am happy to be proved wrong.
Clayton: I was going to ask, "Please elaborate" and then I saw that you did in a subsquent post. My question remains: How does such a short stem and bar affect handling if you like your drop bar relatively low -- again, no more high than level with saddle. That said, I've converted several long-top-tube "NORBA-type" mountain bikes to drop bars with longish ramps -- Noodle, for example -- using stems with short effective reach; for example, Tioga T-Bone upjutters or a 10 cm Dirt Drop for example to make 58.5 cm tts match the 56.5-57s on my road bikes; these conversions worked well. But I gather that the new Atlantis has a more-than-NORBA-length top tube, and I wonder how well you can really get it to work with a normal-shape drop bar level with or lower than saddle. And of course there is nothing at all wrong with sweep-back bars, but I wonder how well a frame designed for those will work in the real world with drop bars level with etc. On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 7:21 AM James / Analog Cycles < analogcyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > New MIT Atlantis frames worth fine with shorter reach drop bars and 30mm > or 0mm stems. No need to size down. -James / Analog Cycles / Discord > Components / Etc etc > https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk8H2AKhPiD/ > > [image: DSC07236-1.jpg] > > > On Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 10:56:07 PM UTC-4, Eamon Nordquist wrote: >> >> The newest MIT Atlantis models do seem to have gotten even longer than >> the first round. I personally wouldn’t be able to fit dropbars to one >> without it going a size too small, and having way more stem and seat post >> than I would be happy with (short stem notwithstanding). I do hope the new >> Hillbornes haven’t gotten longer. The roster is pretty chock full of long >> bikes. Could be what others want, though. Who knows? >> >> Eamon >> Seattle > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e20c097d-5660-4dda-8278-023a811c7a92%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e20c097d-5660-4dda-8278-023a811c7a92%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgua767EAAw3cwjQaaFiw3ipaxQmPAj%3DZXb_v3T3w%3DJwUg%40mail.gmail.com.
