Originally Posted by
hueyhoolihan
this was my point. a steeper seattube angle eventually results in no hand pressure at all.
I think we must talking at cross purposes here. I'm pretty much in agreement with
veryredbike. By steeper seat tube angle, do you mean a seat/top tube angle approaching 90deg (eg as on a unicycle)? In which case no, on a bicycle it would result in far greater hand pressure.