@Timer - A riser bar is not "effectively" lengthening anything, it is just raising the position of your hands up, vertically. Once the bar has the same backsweep as the lower rise bar and you don't roll it back any different, then NO, it is NOT shortening the Reach. The reason spacers under your stem shortens the reach is because it then moves the stem up, accordingly with the angle of the HT, hence that means it also goes back as it goes up.
Sept. 13, 2022, 4:31 a.m. - Lynx .
@Timer - A riser bar is not "effectively" lengthening anything, it is just raising the position of your hands up, vertically. Once the bar has the same backsweep as the lower rise bar and you don't roll it back any different, then NO, it is NOT shortening the Reach. The reason spacers under your stem shortens the reach is because it then moves the stem up, accordingly with the angle of the HT, hence that means it also goes back as it goes up.