Originally Posted by
MoAlpha
Just to be pedantic, the hooks vs drops discussion is meaningless without knowing the bike setup and the angle of the rider's elbows. Anyone living in the drops, even shallow ones, likely has their bars pretty high.
Agree. My 63cm sport touring bike is easy in the drops, lesser so the 59cm bike.
I have one bike (Mondia) that has a compact 'cockpit' - read shorter TT+stem mostly - that has my arms & hands feeling cramped, so the most comfortable position (as set up presently) is to drop your forearms and hands. I never thought it would work for me, but this bike always rides 'sprinty', like it wants to accelerate. All in the set-up. And not my century bike.
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Last edited by Wildwood; 03-25-16 at 03:29 PM.