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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).
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You might as well drop the base bar. Using a bento bag behind the stem is a solution some people use to smooth airflow off the stem, dunno if it actually works though.
Those upturned base bar ends would annoy me, dunno how much is in it but they don't look aero.
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Hmm, yes it might not be enough separation, I think it's only 20mm whereas Wiggo's and Botty's are 30m+
They're so strong, they can be anti-aero. :)
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Oliver Schick
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.