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Originally Posted by oldbobcat
This guy explains it better than I can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbuK4-HXhxY
And here's a cycling magazine cover from the days when amateur fitters all said the handlebar should be level with the saddle, and elbow-to-fingertip from the saddle nose (1975). This illustrator captured the "ears tucked between the shoulder blades" anomaly unknowingly, probably because all us newbies rode that way.
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