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Old 02-16-12, 02:50 AM
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C_booth: exactly. As you move the seat closer to being over the bb, you have less to counterbalance your weight. Your reach to the bars decreases, but the weight on your hands increases.

The no hands thing isn't relevant to normal riding, because riding with no hands requires you to bring your weight back above the BB, or at least much closer to it. Steeper angle would only lead to no pressure at all if you didn't have your hands on the bars or if the bars were to rise and come backwards as the seat tube tilted towards the front of the bike. If you just rotate the tube until it's going straight up from the bb, you can't lean forwards without requiring hand strength to balance you.
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