Originally Posted by
bradtx
You're just going to have to get that notion out of your head, I had to. It is a good plan to have your touring bike fit as close as possible to your well fitting road bikes, they just arent going to look the same side-by-side.
I don't think a fork swap will guarantee a better fit than using a combination of or possibly just one of the following, an adjustable stem, extender, different handle bars or simply moving the brake levers up on the bars. An easy thing to try is to roate your bars upward... may work.
Brad
I agree.
But I'm still trying to understand why a new fork with an uncut steering tube would be less effective than adjustable stems, risers, etc. Seems to me that an uncut steering tube will allow me to raise the bars higher than any extender and I can then dial in the fit with stem length. Wouldn't raising the bars also simultaneously shorten the reach to the hoods?