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Cinlli Pista Stem ... Short or long?
Just about to order a cinelli pista stem (threadless type, 31.8) for my 2003 Cannondale...
I already ordered the cinelli pista bar but can't descide on the stem length... If this bike were geared, with a normal stem, based on the top tube length, I would use a 120mm stem... This is a pista stem so the drop is steeper... Also I will spend more time on the top part then in the drops (it's a single speed so the brake levers will be clamped to the 31.8 part) What size stem would you recommend based on: 1. Proper fit 2. Proper look Thanks!! |
This may help: http://www.brightspoke.com/t/bike-stem-calculator.html
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Use the stem calculator:
http://www.brightspoke.com/t/bike-stem-calculator.html pay careful attention to the stem height and stem reach. Use your current stem as a starting point and compare it to the pista stem. Typically if you go lower, you're gonna want to go shorter if you want somewhat of a similar feel. Of course, you can't be 100% sure about how it will fit until your new stem is installed. |
Originally Posted by ddeadserious
(Post 14950575)
This may help: http://www.brightspoke.com/t/bike-stem-calculator.html
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Whichever one puts your forward-most hand position in-line/in front of the front axle.
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This is so wrong. Proper fit. Proper look. Pista bar with brake. Hands on the flats not the drops. Pista stem.
Stop now. |
Originally Posted by Training.Wheels
(Post 14950583)
Use the stem calculator:
http://www.brightspoke.com/t/bike-stem-calculator.html pay careful attention to the stem height and stem reach. Use your current stem as a starting point and compare it to the pista stem. Typically if you go lower, you're gonna want to go shorter if you want somewhat of a similar feel. Of course, you can't be 100% sure about how it will fit until your new stem is installed. Also what would the head tube angle be on a cannondale caad5?? Thanks! |
Originally Posted by Bat56
(Post 14950605)
This is so wrong. Proper fit. Proper look. Pista bar with brake. Hands on the flats not the drops. Pista stem.
Stop now. |
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^thanks Double D, saved me the trouble.
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Originally Posted by Shutter
(Post 14950611)
This response is a waste of my time...
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Originally Posted by Scrodzilla
(Post 14950676)
Your original post is a waste of ours.
Well... Thanks for those who gave me the following link http://www.brightspoke.com/t/bike-stem-calculator.html I will bookmark it and put it to good use, I do appreciate it. |
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Originally Posted by Scrodzilla
(Post 14950753)
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Let me go ahead and waste the time of the people who might come after you, since you have made up your mind. If there is a glimmer of listen left in you, let me repeat - stop.
That stem calculator helps if you are trying to (for example) replicate (or deviate from a baseline) a current bar placement while using a different length steerer tube with a different angle stem. For example, if you have a riser stem and now you want a zero degree stem but want to end up with the bars in the same place. OP is asking a question about a totally different bar placement. If this bike were geared, with a normal stem, based on the top tube length Further, his priorities as stated are fit and looks. Riding the "flats" on track bars pretty much eliminates any potential for "proper" in the fit department. Putting a brake lever on track bars pretty much eliminates any potential for "proper" in the looks department. Which is why I said stop. OP is not heading in the direction of meeting his priorities. |
And another thing, I realize that I should go ahead and answer the question - short or long... meet in the middle:
shlong |
Originally Posted by Bat56
(Post 14950781)
Let me go ahead and waste the time of the people who might come after you, since you have made up your mind. If there is a glimmer of listen left in you, let me repeat - stop.
That stem calculator helps if you are trying to (for example) replicate (or deviate from a baseline) a current bar placement while using a different length steerer tube with a different angle stem. For example, if you have a riser stem and now you want a zero degree stem but want to end up with the bars in the same place. OP is asking a question about a totally different bar placement. Where does OP like his hands with this road set up? We do not know. I assume the hoods. So, is OP trying to get his hands on the flats of the pista bars to be in the same place as his hands on the hoods of the road set up? We do not know, yet he is asking us to answer the question. Further, his priorities as stated are fit and looks. Riding the "flats" on track bars pretty much eliminates any potential for "proper" in the fit department. Putting a brake lever on track bars pretty much eliminates any potential for "proper" in the looks department. Which is why I said stop. OP is not heading in the direction of meeting his priorities. I do get chewed out on this forum quite often for making track style bikes then adding brakes... I don't like riding fixed but I like having one gear I think the only way to determine a length is to order one and test it out... |
http://www.tollandbicycle.com/images/fitbike.jpg
Call around your local bike shops and ask if they have a fitting bike or something along that lines. See if you can bring in your bars. Trial and error kinda sucks, unless you like stockpiling parts. |
Originally Posted by GMJ
(Post 14950858)
http://www.tollandbicycle.com/images/fitbike.jpg
Call around your local bike shops and ask if they have a fitting bike or something along that lines. See if you can bring in your bars. Trial and error kinda sucks, unless you like stockpiling parts. Luckily the pista stem is only $33 including tax and shipping so I will probably take the advise and start a little shorter to account for the drop (instead of 120 I will go for 100 to start) |
Originally Posted by Shutter
(Post 14950883)
100 to start
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Originally Posted by GMJ
(Post 14950858)
http://www.tollandbicycle.com/images/fitbike.jpg
Call around your local bike shops and ask if they have a fitting bike or something along that lines. See if you can bring in your bars. Trial and error kinda sucks, unless you like stockpiling parts. |
But dude Pista bro ha.
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Originally Posted by Scrodzilla
(Post 14951848)
But dude Pista bro ha.
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Originally Posted by GlenBandit
(Post 14952017)
god you are so lame.
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