There's nothing to get Patrick as how you've explained how you position/ride is quite "natural" to me. That said, I never have or will ride a bike with very, very high bars. I won't say it's impossible to sit very upright and spin up steep hills, but it's surely awkward and inefficient to sit up too straight. Like you, in spinning I naturally move long and low. As a hill steepens and I can no longer maintain that cadence and quad load, I naturally move back a little in the saddle and sit up a little, just enough to pedal in my power zone. Never way upright ! Having given the higher bar positions(say 3" max hand position about saddle height) a try for a number of years, I can positively say I don't like it and found it to be a exercise in ever increasing futility. It just feels all wrong to me. Oh what a relief it is to lower the bars where my hands are just above saddle height at the highest, and I've found a much better/more suitable saddle to facilitate a low-er road position, an Ergon SMC. Oh where has a saddle like that been all my life ...... ! I just never tried them out before now.
I've been meaning to get a hanging scale of some sort. I'm more apt to get a analog/dial one as they don't need batteries to function and battery dependency generally sucks. I have analog kitchen scales from the 70's that I use all the time. The Bombadil is a tankster and my Franklin feels like a heavy-er version of the various Columbus SL/SLX racing bikes I used to own. I love me some road bikes and riding ! -- 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/5c1c0ca6-43fd-40e2-8b78-cd997faab5adn%40googlegroups.com.
