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Old 09-06-14 | 08:14 AM
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..You might want to get your imaginary friend to look at the results of this google search:

https://www.google.com/search?client...oe=utf-8&gl=uk

...Because EVERY link I checked - all to respected frame makers, bike fitter and publications, says that moving the stem lower and further forward (which is what you do to be more aero) increases weight on your hands!

Even allowing for the fact that there are lots of fit manuals and they won't all have been written by super competent people, I will be shocked if anyone was stupid to write what you claim. (My money is on you having invented a psuedo source to back you up, which you won't be able to show. But, hey, it might just be that you didn't understand what you read!)

The closest that any sane competent person has every come to matching your silly claim is

http://sheldonbrown.com/upgrade.html
Newer bikes, particularly the larger sizes, tend to have considerably longer top tubes than older ones. This is good for racers, bad for most everybody else. A racer likes a very stretched-out upper body position, with the back nearly horizontal. This is, in fact faster. If your legs are strong enough to keep pedaling hard all the time, the reaction to the pedaling force will allow you to maintain this position without undue strain to your upper body...but: If you're heavier than a typical racer, and don't pedal as hard all the time, an aggressive upper body position will lead to resting too much weight on your hands. This can lead to serious problems with your wrists, shoulders, neck.

..Which is a very narrow get out clause that applies to aggressive bikes used at sports performance levels by highly athletic riders. So realistically, no one on a hybrid except back when Lance The Liar was trying to sell the model with his name on..

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