MacB
Lover of things that come in 3's
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- Farnborough, Hampshire
The old fashioned way of checking stem reach was to put the back of your elbow against the nose of the saddle and your hand down the side of the stem, if your fingers touched the back of the bars the reach was about right, if your fingers didn't reach the bars the stem was to long, if your fingers went over the bars the stem was to short. Its a method I've used for years and its normally managed to get the stem length right first time.
Interesting Dave, I thought your fingers were meant to come up short of the bars by anything up to about 4 inches. I like the idea of this method but it doesn't account for variables like the reach of the bars themselves.