Overly-Sensitive handling Any ideas?

Rick Onanian

On 10 Jul 2004 21:24:25 -0700, apoman60612@yahoo.com (Mark) wrote:
>greatly, and I have solved the problem.

It's good to hear that. I'm closing in on my problem, too.

>At first, I thought the slight raising of the Stem would be
>a benefit to a slightly more comfortable ride, and that it
>would look a bit nicer too.

Apart from the handling, was it more comfortable? If so, you
may still have options for getting your bars higher.

>thinking now about how other bikes are (looking at the
>pro's bikes on TV lately), nobody has stems sticking up
>really high, (Even though they're mostly Threadless Stems)
>and now I understand the reason behind this.

You're wrong. They have the bars low for aerodynamic and
style reasons. They have custom-fit and often custom-
fabricated frames, designed for them and the way they want
to ride. If they want high handlebars, they can have the
bike built to handle well with high bars.

I am not a pro. You probably also are not. Our needs,
bodies, abilities, budgets, and knowledge differ from those
of the pros.

>Thank you all again for teaching me, and helping me
>understand some bike basics, which I've seem to forgotten.

Hang around here, and you'll feel like an expert
pretty soon.

>Also too many thanks to the poster for the thought about
>perhaps slightly raising my Brake Levers on the bars for a
>bit better comfort when holding by the brake Lever Hoods.

Do you find similar comfort as you had with the stem raised?
Another option is to rotate the bars, bringing the hoods up
and also changing the angle of the hoods and drops. Either
way, the angle of the hoods changes, though.

>I see just about 100% of the TDF pros have thier levers
>placed quite high on the bars, ans I can imagine that there
>is better fuction/comfort with them this way.

Maybe. Probably optimized entirely for speed.
--
Rick Onanian