Bike fit / correct riding position

I lol'd.

Get some forks with a longer steerer?

Or some of these

@scherrit I have the exact same issue as @frankenbike. Neck in an unnatural position for length of time causing discomfort and can't not look forward as a solution. I don't know if my pelvis is tilted when riding - is there any more guidance on this point online anywhere please? Cheers

Try here

After a long ride( for me) I found near the end of the ride I got a pinching feeling almost like having a stich but it was at the base of my left shoulder blade. Has any one else had similar? I think I hunch my shoulders alot when riding . Would increasing my core strength help eliviate this and the hunching of shoulders

Cheers @dancing james

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It's nice to help but that's too much information, and some of it is (at best) questionable.

Send him to a reputable fitter or shop.

@Lolo will do cheers.

Here’s a weird one.

My wife has been cycling for a couple of years has had a bike fit, has the same FTP as I do... but she can’t stand up in the saddle to climb. It’s too physically uncomfortable for her to do so - she feels like she is glued to the saddle and her legs won’t let her stand and rotate the pedals.

On the flat she can stand in the saddle...

I’ve no idea how to approach this as it seems so natural for me to be able to?! But it means that going up steeper hills is basically impossible for her.

Any tips on how to fix this?

See @scherrit after coivd 19 is over.

Lower gears. You shouldn't need to stand on a climb.

It is nice to rest certain muscles though so it's a 'nice to have'. Sounds more like a practice issue not a bike fit issue. Train it like anything else - do a little bit, do a little bit more next time. Repeat until comfortably riding out of the saddle long enough for it to be useful. Maybe have her try on a turbo trainer is she's worried about doing it on the road, get her used to the different torso balance point?

Current bike has 1cm less reach than new frame. Do I just make this up with a longer stem? Any other considerations?
Obviously accounting for reach of bars too.

yeah and stem angle http://yojimg.net/bike/web_tools/stem.php

Yeah that’ll have to factor in stack too

Is there a simple rule of thumb when swapping to narrower bars (with the same reach) to figure if and by how much stem length should increase? I've seen MTB guys discussing 2 to 1 when going wider (20mm wider bars, 10mm shorter stem) but I'm not sure how well that translates to road setups.

There's not as much variation in width between road bars, compared to MTB bars. I'd just stick with the rough rule that bars should be about 2cm wider than shoulder width

What @jono84 is asking is if you go from say, 40 to 38 bars should you add 1cm in stem length.

It's not very scientific but I guess it's not a bad rule of thumb to start with. Welcome to narrow bars.

Yep this. I went from 42 to 38 as I didn't have a 40 to hand. Generally liked the narrower position but started to get some lower back pain which I believe was due to the reduced reach compression.

Are you a fan of narrower bars then?

@GoatandTricycle what's the new bike?

It was a Supersix disc, now resides in Dorset with my brother :-(
Was just too similar to the Canyon to justify really. Looking for something more cross/ gravel/ Audax.
Although the Ultimate really is very versatile.

I am. I have narrow shoulders and the bars that would come stock were always too wide for me (I'm 5'11" and ride a 55/56). It feels much more natural now on 38cm hood to hood, and I don't think I'll ever go wider than 40. You do end up with long stems though, I have a 140mm on my TCR and the position is not ridiculously aggressive.