Knee-bar quotient seems spurious to me. Its hard for me to imagine just how long your cockpit is! If those are noodles, I wonder if the long stem influences handling.
OK. This is an easy, if sacrilegious test. Lower the bars so that they're even with the saddle. Then ride, climb, and see how it feels. Maybe even try them 1cm lower. This will, of course, push the bars out more. But it might answer the question about height being an issue. By my estimation, when you're climbing, the bars are coming up toward you, and the combination of "up and out" may be putting no-good pressure on your back. Anyway, just try it. Esteban San Diego, Calif. On Monday, April 2, 2012 5:05:14 PM UTC-7, Bruce Curry wrote: > > Tis the season to be putting on more miles and I am experiencing more > pronounced lower back pain. For some reason climbing makes it even > worse. I feel like my bars are too far forward for me but don't wan't > to launch on a stem buying spree without some scientific study and > addl input from group members. The facts: > > 64cm Ram with the bars about 3cm over saddle height, 60cm cockpit w/a > 12cm stem and a VO wayback seatpost w/a brooks B17. I am tall with > long torso & short arms. When I look at my front hub thru my bars the > hub is about an inch ahead of the line made by the bars (but since the > bars are up so high this point is essentially moot). What I think is > probably the most telling issue is that my knees remain about 7" away > from my bars (measured horizontally from each other from a purely > eyeballed vertical plane separating my knee from the bars). The > method I used to take this measurement was to spin backwards holding > onto the wall looking straight down at a tape measure to judge the > imaginary horizontal distance from the farthest forward progress of > the knee. > > Has anyone else faced this challenge? Solution? Does the "knee-bar > quotient" seem like a rational metric. Anyone else care to share > their number? > > Bruce in Seattle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/ckxLxWfVwGEJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
