The goal of finding the right handlebar height is to find a height that puts you in an athletic, centered, neutral, and hinged body position when standing and descending while not compromising your climbing body position. #BIKE STEM RISE CALCULATOR MANUALS#With high handlebars, wheelies and manuals are harder to do and tend to put you in a “hanging off the handlebars” body position with your weight too far back while descending. When climbing with your handlebars too high, it is hard to hinge forward enough to keep the front wheel on the ground on steep climbs, even when you have slid your weight all the way forward on the saddle. In my courses, I explain that if your bars are too high it makes riding more difficult. This feels good in the parking lot and while seated and pedaling on mellow terrain, but when you want to ride more demanding trails, it can get in the way. Often, bikes come from the shop in the most comfortable position with 20-50mm of spacers under the stem and riser bars (bars that ride 15 to 40mm higher than the stem). Many of my students’ handlebars are too high and often we lower them 10-50mm, to get them in a better, more confident position. Precise handlebar height is more important than I realized! I made a small handlebar height adjusment and it ended up sabotaging my racing and riding for 6 weeks. I learned quite a bit while training and racing last year, and would like to share an IMPORTANT BIKE SETUP CONCEPT with you that greatly impacts how you ride.
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