Thursday, December 08, 2011

Stem angle

remember me and cranking about the stem angle?

yeah...

guess what?  I looked at some pictures from Ice Weasels last year.  Stem was up.

And then I remembered.

I f'n flipped the damn stem before that first TT I did on the CX bike this summer.

And...

I

NEVER

FLIPPED

IT

BACK

such

an

idiot

*facepalm*

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

i told you you looked like superman in mid flight all season.

matt said...

Imagine, just for a moment, how much faster you would have been had you only flipped that stem back.

You don't get entire seasons like that back... What a shame.

gewilli said...

you're a funny guy matt...

i think it would have helped me turn a bit better, so yeah that would have made me faster. but just think, that's one more thing for next year...

gewilli said...

assuming I can remember to flip it back... before 2012 season

Jeff Moote said...

I will take the opposite opinion that forgetting to flip it back is probably for the better. Weight on the front = better turning.

gewilli said...

yeah who knows - it wouldn't be that much and Treefarm makes an insane saddle to bar drop work.

wouldn't change reach much. but I'm going to get the damn scale (that is telling me i'm 188) and see if it changes at all.

Oh and the other thing I noticed from the Ice Weasels photos from last year... WOW i was FAT

ScottyD said...

Just set yourself a reminder in Google Calendar for August to flip back. All Hail Google

gewilli said...

Scotty, I might just have to do that...

OR

I know.

I'm going to flip it, and put the SICK WHAT sticker on the FLIPPED side...

there are advantages to having a wicked long one