Originally Posted by
pvillemasher
Those H2O cages are cheap ones from my LBS, I think I paid $10 or $20 for them. I do like the look, I think they fit the bike's vibe well.
About the smooth ride - +1, and I can absolutely see why people like these frames for gravel bikes.
It's a Medium frame. I kept the spacers they way they came, and I'll probably play around with the stem height after the New Year. And I'm 55...my seat-is-higher-than-my-bars days are pretty much over. I like to be comfy.
Yeah, I thought my bars would be closer to my saddle on this bike than they ended up being. I guess I must have longer legs than I thought or something. This bike has less drop to the bars than my Trek 2300, but not by as much as I thought. I'm almost 49, so right behind ya, and I agree on comfort. Since my bars are about as high as they can go on this fork tube, if I decide in the future that I'd like my bars closer to saddle height I could always get a stem with a steeper positive angle. I had one on my previous bike and it was helpful. I don't think I could have gotten away with getting the XL frame, because with only a 100mm stem and the Ergonova Pro bar (has longer reach than the FSA bar the bike came with) I'm already feel quite stretched out. A larger frame would have just meant using a much shorter, twitchier stem. Ain't nobody got time for that.
Speaking of the bottle cages,
these are the ones I was thinking of. $60 each, OUCH. At some point if it seems important to me to complete the pimping out of the bike with as much titanium as I can I may have to pony up for these, but it'll be a while. These black aluminum ones work really well, and the devil on my shoulder is currently just issuing forth a faint whisper of temptation. Especially having spent money on the ti stem spacer, I gotta draw the line somewhere.
