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How do you decide bar height on your trail bike?

slyfink

Turbo Monkey
Sep 16, 2008
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5,123
Ottawa, Canada
I start with the stem above all spacers except for one, then lower it until I'm not washing out the front wheel on sweeping flat corners. On my bike, that has left me with the bars about 1cm above seat. I have a 60mm stem though, and 780mm bars.
 

StiHacka

Compensating for something
Jan 4, 2013
21,560
12,506
In hell. Welcome!
I was in the middle of writing an elaborate post about the the stem height and where it is supposed to meet the balls during an accelerated dismount but then I realized not everyone has big balls. :think:
 

'size

Turbo Monkey
May 30, 2007
2,000
338
AZ
as low as possible without feeling like my weight is shifted too far forward with the saddle at pedaling/climbing height.
 

Gary

"S" is for "neo-luddite"
Aug 27, 2002
7,772
5,681
UK
Wow! page 2 before the wildly irrelevant numerically autistic data sharing started...

Impressive.