Originally Posted by
John E
Some rough first approximations:
Seat-to-handlebar distance: With your elbow against the nose of the saddle, do your fingertips just touch the horizontal center portion of the bar?
never heard this one before so i tried it on 2 of my working bikes. the first is a bike that i've just finished building and have been stressing about the "fit" even though i've been fit before and we set it up with "correct numbers", the other is a bike that i just picked up off of CL and know that it's too long (reach-wise) for me.
guess what? i did the elbow trick and my tips just touched on the bike that was set up properly, and the CL bike that was too long, was indeed too long by a few cm's.
