Originally Posted by rbart4506

Good one...Nice advice...

Don't think that would have helped me at the Tour of Catskills...

You see, I race and like the short cockpit....Makes for a quicker handling bike...

There's more to bike fit then arbitrary numbers such as 'if you ride a 100mm stem your bike is too big'...The real scary part is guys spouting that off and then newbs reading it and believing it...

Oh and to the OP, that just happens sometimes...My wife has that issue and she is not carrying a spare tire
She's just really flexible and when she get in the drops she will at times hit her stomach with her thighs...No biggie...

Originally Posted by Mpov

So let me get this straight - everyone should fit on a bike with a 120-130mm stem. I suppose it needs to be slammed, too. If you can't get a good fit with that size stem, and no spacers, you need a custom frame, or just forget about getting a road bike altogether. All the various sized stems sold by multiple manufacturers are produced for the sole purpose of fitting people to bikes that are not sized correctly for them in the first place. Do I have that correct? By the way, what angle should that stem be?