Hi,
Short torso and long legs no way should you feel cramped on a typical road bike.
Can't tell from the photo but I'm no big fan of KOPS and think that seat position
fore aft is very overrated. Set the seat in the middle position if indicated on
the rails otherwise guessimate an even bend position for the saddle rails.
Set seat height, near optimum your legs will lock out with your instep on the
pedal but won't lockout with the ball of the foot over the pedal. With the ball
of the foot over the pedal both legs will lock out forward of the bottom stroke.
(Push and pedal backwards).
Your already half way to a comfortable fit, (but not necessarily performance
optimised). The next problem is how to simplify the front end adjustment.
My opinion is until you get comfortable +/- 1cm adjustments fore/aft on the saddle
are similar to to adjusting front reach and the like. When you get to something
comfortable your then talking rotating it all forward and back around the pedals.
The front is more awkward than the back because it depends more on the riders
conditioning. Going down on the drops should feel more stretched out than being
on the hoods, if it doesn't it would then seem to me your bars are too high.
Your stem looks flipped up, it can be flipped down for height, as well as the spacers
to adjust bar height. Your bars should need to be rotated forward a little to suit.
Really after you've got the back right, which really doesn't vary much between
people, the front is just finding something that suits you best. The slightly
longer stem at this juncture IMO won't help much, it is fine tuning in likely
combination with the saddles fore / aft position, and I have no real idea.
Flip the stem and then play with the spacers, adjust bar rotation for each
height and see it you can find something you like / and feels comfortable.
Move the saddle if you feel too far back or forward on it with front changes.
Better back possibly go with the 70mm stem, better forward simply don't.
rgds, sreten.
FWIW I chopped and flipped my drops into bullhorns.They are set at the
minimum the stem / headset allows. About 3" below the seat, but at 50+
and 6 months + I currently find it a stretch to reach fully into them.
However the various hand positions available are a lot more aggressive
than the same positions if I had set it up to be comfortable on the drops.
Last edited by sreten; 08-21-13 at 06:44 PM.