Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

and still saddle to bar drop (marginal, but looking at hoods position as well...) - thought the idea with those "things" was to have bar to saddle drop?

depending really, I find the latter way too high, and make hill climbing hard work with too much weight on the rear right now the position felt a bit more idea, more weight on the front, and I intend to have a good amount of weight on the front.

I find the bike easier to control on the ascend than a loaded rear pannier (which I discovered doing the Ditchling that the front wheel kept lifting from the tarmac at every pedals stroke no matter how far foward I put myself).

I had that bike for quite a while, and been upgrading for quite a while with the necessary change (wheelset especially)

originally as I got it;