Hi, I am not starting a new war or anything, just want you thoughts on something I am thinking of.
Basically I find that the compromise in your horisontal position, that is saddle for or aft, lenght of effective top tube and your stem, and the height of your handle bars, has big effect on your cycling.
If I would sit really far back, with a short stem, I find, for me, that messes up my standing climbing. I need the handlebars quite far forward when I stand up, so that sort of means I can not sit very far back, if I wanted to. I sit a bit more forward, with a longer stem so to speak, to create room for me standing up. I have my handlebars quite low, and that might add to the need to have them further forward when standing up, since I can not stand "straight up" so to speak. Maybe my lanky 188 cm adds to this, 6'2 for you oldies.
I read, on a pretty down to earth website, that you can basically measure if your are sitting too far forward with just judging how much pressure you have on your hands when you sit and cycle. For good hand comfort, it means that you should be able to take your hands off the bars and not feel that you fall forward too much, if you do move the seat back. I pretty much do a face plant when I do that. So I should then, for more comfort, sit further back, but that means that my standing up goes off. He he, confusion rules here.
Anyway, just some stuff that is going through my head at the moment, if someone else has thoughts post away. But this is no dogma think, better this fit, worse that fit, kenndy here someone else there.
Basically I find that the compromise in your horisontal position, that is saddle for or aft, lenght of effective top tube and your stem, and the height of your handle bars, has big effect on your cycling.
If I would sit really far back, with a short stem, I find, for me, that messes up my standing climbing. I need the handlebars quite far forward when I stand up, so that sort of means I can not sit very far back, if I wanted to. I sit a bit more forward, with a longer stem so to speak, to create room for me standing up. I have my handlebars quite low, and that might add to the need to have them further forward when standing up, since I can not stand "straight up" so to speak. Maybe my lanky 188 cm adds to this, 6'2 for you oldies.
I read, on a pretty down to earth website, that you can basically measure if your are sitting too far forward with just judging how much pressure you have on your hands when you sit and cycle. For good hand comfort, it means that you should be able to take your hands off the bars and not feel that you fall forward too much, if you do move the seat back. I pretty much do a face plant when I do that. So I should then, for more comfort, sit further back, but that means that my standing up goes off. He he, confusion rules here.
Anyway, just some stuff that is going through my head at the moment, if someone else has thoughts post away. But this is no dogma think, better this fit, worse that fit, kenndy here someone else there.