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The fastest bar position is the one that puts you into your optimum postion (but you already know that ;) )
Independently though, either separating the extensions from the base bar by 50+mm is probably a good thing for getting smooth flow over the base bar though, or completely integrating them both for minimal frontal area. A middle ground of 20-35?mm spacers is probably going to have the worst of both worlds.
Bottrill changed down a frame size and added stack last year and he probably didn't do it to make himself slower.
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The fastest bar position is the one that puts you into your optimum postion
Do I need to troll your WW thread even more?
My position on the bike would remain the same, I'm just wondering about the bar aerodynamics.Hmm, yes it might not be enough separation, I think it's only 20mm whereas Wiggo's and Botty's are 30m+
Bottrill's bike has a clean stem to top tube though, whereas my Shiv is going to have a lump in the form of the tower no matter where I put the bars.
But you can see on mine, I could drop the stem, get rid of the gap-filler spacer on the 'tower' behind it and then jack up the pads/exts using spacers.
I'm basically thinking of trading the spacers below the stem frontal area for the spacers under the pads front area, which in my mind should be better aerodynamically (assuming I then cut the fork down).
hippy
Anyone have the skinny on which bar setup is 'likely' to be faster? (Yes, yes I'll need to test it)
Slam the stem and jack the pads/extensions up with spacers (seems on-trend with Sky, etc) or my current setup which has a higher stem and the base bar close to the extensions/pads?
Assuming the trendy way is faster the only disadvantages I can see are potentially slightly wobblier pads and the brakes are a bit further away (only 20mm though, I'd guess).