Originally Posted by
alanbikehouston
Some of the posts in this thread make "bike fit" sound more complicated than building a space shuttle. Just do the easy thing first. Swap out your stem for a stem that brings the bars up level with the top of your saddle. Nine times out of ten, that will solve the problem of feeling overly stretched out on a bike.
AGAIN...bad advice, this will cause you to put too much weight on the back of the bike, this will affect saddle comfort, kill aerodynamics and bike handling.
This is great advice for a 50 year old housewife on a hybrid with a large wicker basket, but way off for anyone riding a road racing bike.
If typing in 8 measurements is more complicated than building a space shuttle, you need to get to the other side of Houston sometime.