Originally Posted by stapfam

About that flexibility that you may not have when you change over to road bikes. It comes. When I got the OCR I had a problem getting down into the drops so I practised. Flat section on the road and I would go down for about 20 seconds at a time (Which initially was all I could manage) until after a couple of months there was no pain in getting into the drops.Did a couple of things like lengthening the reach and raising the bars but that bike was never really comfortable.

Note bars level with the saddle

Then the second bike a year later and I was flexible enough to ride this with the bars 4" below the saddle and a longer reach



For some of us that long low position works which may seem contrary to what you would expect.

Which is another pointer to the fact that N+1 is a near certainty after a year or so.