Chuck wrote, in part:
After those things are in place, the hub/bar alignment is done with the hands in the drops. From that position, I like for the bar to obscure the view of the hub. In other words, they will be in line with each other. There are some smaller riders that this hasn't worked for.
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For riders with shorter arms, like moi, the whole "bar should obscure the front hub axle" doesn't ever work, because if I set my bike up like that, the fit would often be wrong in other ways.
I had a brief chat with Ted Ernst about this recently, and while I won't speak for him--I'm sure he'll contribute to this thread eventually--he said basically that same thing...
Fit really is an interesting business. After 40 years of riding, I still find I'm learning about fit, and variations of fit, and how different variations work better for different purposes. There seems to be no method that works for all body types..although Grant Petersen's ideas seem both timeless and practical.
Charles Andrews Los Angeles
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."
John Donne
Meditation 1624