Posted by: kcy4130
Posted by: geraldooka
Ha I like the painful seat idea ;-) I have pretty cushy grips with the ESI's I may try a more backswept bar that may work, although I am already using the 30x 12deg which has a decent back-sweep that eats up about 45mm of cockpit length.
Did the 12deg bars help? I'm curious if they'd help me. I hesitate to spend much just to try them tho. As an experiment you could try over pressuring your fork so you have barely any sag for the road portion of a ride, hence slackening sta. If you like it, it'd at least give you a data point on what to aim for in future.
Yes I have a hard time going back to bars with less sweep now at least at the width I run my mtb bars which is 760-780. The issue with the 30x is that measure rise different form literally everyone other manufacturer so their 45mm "high-rise" is really more like a 30 (if that). I have found another manufacture called Ergotec that makes higher rise bars that are also really comfy at 12deg backsweep. I have a 50 and 75mm rise (they are actually 50 and 75mm high). I like you're idea re fork pressure I have used that technique to figure out where I may be happy.
Re bar height here's the issue with raising the front end too high for me: So with longer reach and steeper seat angles I have to raise the front end to ride anything other than up and down to achieve some level of comfort. On trail I suffer the consequences of this now high front end which for me manifest in a harder time getting up and over things particularly when climbing tight switch backs and suddenly "ooof" I gotta hump the front up a ledge with the reduced leverage because my arms are way up already and then get over this high front end so that my rear wheel can get over the ledge...
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