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re: elbows, never lock your arms when riding. Your elbows provide a lot of shock absorption for your upper body. Ideally, your upper arms should be parallel with the fork blades/head tube, forearms at a flatter angle. I think if you rotate those bars upwards some, till the end of the drop section is flat with the ground, you’ll be happier.
This is a more typical setup:
though may be a tad bit too far in the other direction. The important part is that your elbows and wrists are in comfortable fairly relaxed positions.As far as the seat goes, as long as your comfortable, that’s all that matters. I know a lot of guys who won’t trade their piece of stretched leather for the newest wonder saddle of any shape for the world, etc. I start having problems with more padded saddles starting to chafe/rub in uncomfortable ways far sooner than the sit bones start complaining these days, but it takes a fairly regularly cycling routine to get to that point. Though, if my saddle is too firm, my glutes/IT band take too much of a beating and those start to complain, so it’s a trade off that takes a while to hone in on, and can and probably will change over time.
I was just thinking “wonder if Fluffy’s posted a picture of his bike yet”. Looks like a good rig once you get the zip ties cut down. I can’t quite tell from the angle of the bars, but looks like they may be rotated too far down right now. Looks like the ends of the bars are pointed slightly upward, normally they are either parallel with the ground, or even slightly pointed downward to give the best comfort in the drops. But ultimately, it’s what ever is comfortable for the rider, I don’t have much experience with shimano’s STI shifters to give you any recommendations on the angle that gives the best comfort for the hands. What’s attached to the stem, GPS of some sort?
Overall, looks like you’ve got yourself a solid bike that’ll provide plenty of good miles of service without beating you up.
Dave Kirk emailed me the studio photos of my bike that he took before boxing it up and shipping it to me. Really shows off the colors better than the photos I’ve taken so far:
Moon on April 6th @ 9:46pm. Was fairly large to the naked eye being still quite low on the horizon, hazy conditions so clarity isn’t great, but paired with the 300mm Nikon w/ doubler made for a nice full frame of the moon.
635 @ DNT, Dallas, from my office window.
The wild flowers are in full bloom here in Texas. The park near by seeds several areas of the grounds each year, bluebonnets (Texas state flower) for the most part, but several others as well. So of course my wife wanted to get a few photos of our corgi in the bluebonnets, and I took the opportunity to take some w/o the dog as well.
More wild flower photos towards the bottom of my Parks & Nature album (link in post above and original post)
