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(the bar ends should point towards the rear brake bridge)......... why ?
To prevent people who think they know everything from commenting on your bar angle.
The Colnago has the same bar angle as Sean used to use, and he clearly had no clue about riding a bike
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It ain't really fair to tell someone their bar angle is wrong. Cos unless you've ridden their bike using their body you don't really know.
+100 to yours and MDC's comments. Some people seem to forget just how personal a thing bike set-up is.
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As Jeez says though, asking the question is one thing, telling them your personal answer is another.
I'll still call fixie riders without foot retention stupid though ;-)
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Indeed. 5 degrees either way could be well founded personalisation; huge deviations from the norm are more likely to be poor fit or sheer ignorance. Essentially, the greater the deviation from normal, the greater the probability that it's "wrong", in the sense that the rider would enjoy cycling more by getting it sorted.
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It's the bombastic way this information is conveyed that's the issue.
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"teh internetz" => "bombast"
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To prevent people who think they know everything from commenting on your bar angle.
The Colnago has the same bar angle as Sean used to use, and he clearly had no clue about riding a bike
Using Sean Yates as a yardstick for bike fit? I've seen everything now.
The reason why the end of the bars should point towards the brake bridge is to give you the best range of available hand positions. It's funny that modern bars come with marks to help you fit them, with 0 usually meaning they point directly at the brake bridge. I wonder what the manufacturers know that you lot don't.
As for 'being bombastic', it's the internet and this part of it is a little bit more rough and tumble than most.
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Just finished my first build, helped by the kind folk on here. Some before and after pics.
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Thanks, sorted the angle out after photo was taken.
Shifters are cosmetic, didn't look as nice with the stumps. Didn't want to remove braze on's so I can make it geared in the future.
Would this be the bike I saw on Friday in that bike-shop on Westbourne Park Road?
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Using Sean Yates as a yardstick for bike fit?
Not a yardstick, just an example of a very successful outlier. Dr. Hutch was even "worse" on his hour record bike
Hutch's reasoning, and presumably Sean's, was that the straight part of the drop can provide wrist support if you hold the hook and bend your arms enough. It does make holding the straight bit somewhere between uncomfortable and impossible, so your hands are locked into one place on the drops, but it's a compromise whose benefits might outweigh its disadvantages for certain riders. The Cinelli 62 (LA84) on my lo pro provides a similar shape, and I find the wrist support allows me to hold a lower position for longer when racing. -
Do you find comfortable to use the brake in that position?
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given there's only one type of stem available on the market
Ha!
andyp, you bin scorched.
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Using Sean Yates as a yardstick for bike fit? I've seen everything now.
The reason why the end of the bars should point towards the brake bridge is to give you the best range of available hand positions. It's funny that modern bars come with marks to help you fit them, with 0 usually meaning they point directly at the brake bridge. I wonder what the manufacturers know that you lot don't.
As for 'being bombastic', it's the internet and this part of it is a little bit more rough and tumble than most.
Which bar manufacturer is this?
They have done well creating a bar that knows what size of frame, the geometry of the frame, the number of headset spacers used, the stack height of the headset, the type of stem, length of stem and angle of rise or fall of the stem and them makes the 0 mark appear in the right position so that the bars point at the brake bridge. -
Scorch nailed it in 11 words.
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Would this be the bike I saw on Friday in that bike-shop on Westbourne Park Road?
It is, I would not advise going there, was being lazy and was eating next door so asked them to put my bar tape on for me while I ate. When I came back the guy had for some reason removed the handlebars from the stem, done the worse job at putting tape on I have ever seen, erratic and full of air bubbles and was white cloth tape now covered in oily hand marks. He had then tried to put the stem back on obviously getting stuck half way and had tried forcing it destroying the bar tape and scratching up my bars by the time I returned he was prising the stem open with a sharp screwdriver taking chunks out of my stem.
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At least we now know where Foffa's erstwhile mechanic is working.
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Yeah that is totally not fine at all.
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