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From: Cracow, Poland
Bikes: unknown make TT bike, fixed; Romet Sport, gone; titanium Pinarello gone;Colnago with Campy C-Record/Super Record,on it's way; Funny Gianni Motta; Buehler track, Polrad track chrome; titanium MTB on 28'', fixed; Tri Wheeler, fixed
Aesthetics vs. function?
Hi,
I thought I would ask my question here as you gang are obsessed with clean functionality of the bike more than members of any other forum.
As I am writing this I am looking at my newly set up road bike using ahead stem/steerer. I had to space up by about 2cm to get comfortable position with -10 degree stem.
I could get almost the same bar position removing the spacers and inverting the stem so it is rising.
The latter is stiffer, less parts etc. but looks ugly. When I browse bike images here most of the nice bikes using threadless forks have spacers and stem either horizontal or sloping down - so looks over function?
What's your opinion?