IamSpartacus wrote:
Sorry Mitch will repost here
Mitch just in regards to the mono plug in extension- I noticed that it has 3 holes running along the top each side for the arm cups/wing pad. The s-bends i use have the standard 4 holes. I also use the 4th hole to put wing/pads on (hole that is furtherest away from the body, towards the extensions). As a result, does this mean the mono would not work as it seems shorter? I have the s-bend bar just shy all the way forward but have hardly any room to go further forward. The arm cups are are in the middle of the wing. I have attached a pic, i hope it works. I want to try different bars, something like a zipp with 70mm rise, but im hesitant that i might not be able to get my pads in the right position (ie, quite forward) since the mono doesnt have as much length?
Not the official response and obviously do this at your own risk, but you can run the bolt assembly backwards with the limit screw in the front which will basically give you the same pad x length you would have with the 4th hole. I would not be worried about the forces exerted on the limit assembly if you have the limit screw screwed in to touch the riser assembly, as if you are running on the furthest pad screw (3rd hole) you are compressing the limit screw so the forces are balanced well. Make sure the bolts are torqued to spec. However, if you do this and run the pads in a different hole (say nearest 1st pad hole) I would be more concerned as the limit screw is taking no force and you might experience a failure of the bolts, not good. Imo having the limit screw taking some of the load in the event of say hitting a small pothole would theoretically be better as the bolt assembly will have a less likelihood of failure, as your bolts are not going to experience maximum tension forces (lower moment of rear bolt). Again, do this at your own risk.
I got much more reach through this method and it has worked well for me. Obviously trek will say to go by the speed concept user manual so you can decide what you want to do. Alternatively you could try to find a different pad combo like the zipp pads (which is what I run) that give you more surface area and are imo far superior to the stock trek pad/cradle combo. That would also give you a few mm more and should allow you to run a similar pad location.