Charles Andrews wrote about his short arms and that they would make the bar obscuring the stem method not work for him. That is a good point.
Short arms mean that the handlebar should be higher than for someone with longer arms. Also, the method I use, I use as a way to get into the ball park and we sometimes have to deviate from it.
Chuck Hoefer
Pacific Coast Cycles
Oceanside, Ca.
> 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.
>
> **********
>
> 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