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Old 02-10-15 | 03:17 PM
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boobymcgoo
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Hey, your new bike is awesome! It's cool that your excited about buying your first new bike in a long time.

One thing I did with my hybrid: I lowered the headset to reduce the amount of wind resistance (from having your body tall and upright in the wind). There are two things you can do (you can even do them both, which I did). It's a 30 minute process with one tool:

1) You can lower the headset by simply moving the spacers from under the headset to above the headset. Your bike looks very upright, and you'll immediately notice a lower stance.

2) You can flip the headset. Instead of the angle slanting up (towards the sky) it will be fairly flat (to the ground). This is a common technique used by bike shops and the headsets are designed to be flipped.

Personally, I like my commuter to be more road bike-like in the riding stance.
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