Originally Posted by
Barchettaman
When I got the bike I found the reach at the bars too short and the handling very twitchy. I ended up with a stem extender from AliExpress which works superbly well:
I highly recommend this mod; it transforms the handling and comfort of the bike. I know there’s an Andros stem extender from Tern but it was incompatible with my handlebar post.
I need to check if the 25.4 drop bar has a wide enough clamp diameter for this extender, and if so, I will have a look at swapping them in.
Another, perhaps simpler way to add reach is use a riser bar rotated forwards.
An advantage of this approach is that whereas stem of the sort above are kinda limited in size, riser handlebars come in a myriad of rises. You need 9cm of additional reach, no problem. Ridiculous, yes, but you can simply get a 9cm riser bar.