Bill- could you be a little less overt in your shameless gambits for more bike porn? have you no dignity man?
Now, back to the topic at hand: Bruce, please post a picture of your bike already. -Matt On Tuesday, April 3, 2012 9:23:29 AM UTC-4, Bill M. wrote: > > Bruce, > > Can you post a good profile picture of your bike as it sits, and maybe one > of you on the bike? > > Bill > > 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/-/FxESZ1UOyX8J. 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.
