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@AngelD
Cool, think its gonna be pretty sweet when all dialed in. It might be worth getting a cheaper angle adjustable stem if you're not too sure, until you work out what feels right.
I'm seriously contemplating a -10 deg on mine at the mo.
The 0 deg just isn't where I want it so I've been playing around with position calculations, which have seriously testing my high school trigonometry!
I think with a -10 deg stem, the carbon flat bar and bar ends, my bike would be approaching a more stretched out road bike body position angles, but without the drop of road bars, just the bar top and hoods.
If I'm right and the lengths and angles work from BB to tip of saddle to handle bars, which should be taking into account thigh length and proper back/neck angles for good power delivery and comfort (fingers crossed!), but tilted upwards by a few degrees, which is what I'm after, I'll be well happy.
But as I'm already on my 3rd Thomson 4X stem, its getting bloody expensive! Luckily the stem has only been fitted for test runs and isn't marked, so should be able to exchange this one.