Jamie, Thank you for capping this thread with a photo of your most excellent Quickbeam. Beautiful bike! What color(s) are you thinking for the bar tape?
-- Bob On Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 12:37:20 PM UTC-6 Jamie D. wrote: > Alright, I think I've potentially found a viable setup thanks to all your > excellent info. I've got my saddle all the way back, the bars about 2cm > above the saddle, and my hands feel like they're where I would 'want' them > to be. The wider bars are definitely better than the narrower bars and the 3 > main positions these bars offer > <https://bluelug.com/blog/global/all-road-bar-plus/> all feel good at the > moment. One trick I learned from 'Bike Fit James' is that you can turn your > hoods at various angle in to mimic different widths without swapping bars. > I also discovered this article > <https://www.cyclingabout.com/steering-masterclass-how-stem-length-affects-your-steering-speed/> > > about how shorter stems effect steering which was super interesting. I'll > try this out for a while and if it works, the bars will get wrapped![image: > Quickbeam.jpg] > > On Friday, September 12, 2025 at 9:29:16 PM UTC-4 Ted Durant wrote: > >> >> On Sep 12, 2025, at 5:38 PM, Zachary Cannon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> One bit of advice I've heard it the higher the bars, the further back the >> saddle should go for any given rider in order to keep open hips. >> That can mean that as a rider becomes more experienced and want lower >> bars do to bodily adaptations, that rider may want the saddle further >> forward. >> >> >> That has been my experience. And it corresponds to the fashion of >> triathletes spinning their seat posts around for a forward offset to go >> with their aero bars positioned 8” below their saddles. It has been >> interesting to see how the time trial / triathlon fashion has evolved to >> higher handlebar positions, as people realize that being able to breathe is >> important (along with hip angles) and that, as long as your hands are in >> front of your face, you’re pretty much good to go for aerodynamics. >> >> Ted Durant >> Milwaukee, WI USA >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/f2d896a5-4c14-4173-85ff-f7359880dcbcn%40googlegroups.com.
