Originally Posted by zacked

Good to see that the bike setup Nazi hasn't gotten bored of (wrongly) judging pictures of other people's bikes. Since you can fit people without even looking at them you should really go into the bike fit business, you can make some money.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with using spacers, that's just a friggin' aesthetic complaint. Maybe he didn't want to completely devalue and limit the future usefulness of a fork by chopping it down needlessly? The frame already has an extended head tube, I think it was designed with bar height just fine. And the setback post says absolutely nothing about the design either, one PERFECTLY REASONABLE reason to use a setback post is to align the cockpit without extending the wheelbase, for example.