Originally Posted by
Korina
I know, I should be asking in General, but I'd get three different answers and two pages of bickering and I just don't have the patience for that.
"You have too much weight on your hands, you need to lower your handlebar." It sounds counterintuitive, so what is the reasoning behind this? TIA.
I can tell you when I got my Canyon 4 years ago, I built it up with all the spacers under the stem (hence stem as high as it could go), and my first 10 mile shakedown ride had me almost in tears, because my hands would go numb within a minute or two on the hoods. I had just spend $2400 buying a bike unseen based on careful measurement and video reviews, and I could barely ride it. So I went back to careful measurement and determined the bars were 1" higher than on all my other bikes. I moved 2.5 cm of spacers from below to above the stem, and Voila! Hands no longer went numb.
The way I see it, the bars have to be at the
right height, and above and below that, it's a problem.