Originally Posted by
brian44
Thanks for the suggestion! I wonder what I would do I still wanted more reach while in that one specific position as well.
I've heard legends of 15cm stems, but never actually seen one in the wild. Part of the problem is that modern bars have really short reach compared to old-school sprint bars, which have way too much drop for kids these days. A good compromise, if you can find one, is the 33cm Alpina bar. Not too much drop, but generous reach. I have wanted one for many years now. Also tilting your bars up effectively lengthens the reach. The bottom of my drops are probably at around 7˚ or so for that reason.