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Old 08-09-10 | 02:15 PM
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DaveSSS
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From: Loveland, CO

Bikes: Cervelo Rouvida x 2

Relaxed geometry may be nothing more than a 20-30mm taller head tube. It might also have a little shorter TT length.

How can you expect some help when you didn't bother to post your saddle height, the frame make and model or your stem length?.

The bars blocking your view of the hub is mostly worthless. If you go by that idea, then having the hub between you and the bars, or in other words, the hub is behind the bars, means the stem is too long. If the view is blocked in the drops, that means the stem is too long too. You'd be more likely to see the hub a little in front of the bars, from the drops. Whether that idea is valid at all varies greatly with body proportions. This idea also misses the difference in handlebar reach and brake hood reach. Someone using standard reach bars will have about 10mm more reach than short reach bars and the new Shimano brake hoods might add another 5-10mm compared to SRAM or Campy.

Last edited by DaveSSS; 08-09-10 at 03:27 PM.
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