Originally Posted by
Plainsman
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. For the stem (although there isn’t really a stem per se on the stock bike)
, I was thinking of something more like the photo I’ve attached. I’m not sure it will work with the Zizzo clamp set up, but just trying to open up the cockpit a bit. I would also need to understand how the fold works. I race and ride with a lot of saddle to bar drop, so I have no worries about the bars being too low. I’m more concerned with the overall reach and sitting more upright than feels natural.
I've written about this before in the context of finessing fit on my custom-build folders. You can use this type of 'stem' to extend reach, but another, possibly better approach, one that affords even more reach extension, is to use a riser bar tilted forwards. The other is to use a "banana" type handlepost that curves forward.