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Ian,
Looking to upgrade my bike for a CFR. Canyon tells me Medium but I am concerned about how much extension the bars will give. It's not clear how much reach I can get when the bars are in full extension.
I am 186cm, 89.4cm inseam
My current setup is pretty agressive,
- 600cm stack of stack.
- 48 cm elbow pads reach measured from the middle of the BB
The aerobars reach is 40cm from the pads but I'm looking for 5-7cm more (I currently end up reaching for the mechanical shifters to extend my reach). Not sure if the Medium will allow that.
Going large; looks like it will not go low enough.
EtienneC,
I know you meant mm for Pad Y of 600, no worries there. And I've got you at 480mm of Pad X to the rear of the pad.
You've got pretty long legs for your height, yes I'd agree that you're riding longer and lower then I would have expected (let's hope you're doing that on really short cranks).
The Medium in the CFR will meet your at your coordinates with some caviots...
1) You have to get the long stem. Of course on this bike, on any super bike, that "stem" is a one-piece, molded carb stem-basebar combo. The max is 485ish with the long stem so you're covered in terms of the Pad X. You have choices to make on the longer stem. There's a long stem with a flat base bar, a long stem with a rise base bar and then within those two options they make a Shimano or SRAM specific build. I have part numbers on those if you need 'em hit up here.
2) The aerobar extension seems like it's another concern - and I think of and measure this from the back of the pad to the shifter button. It sounds to me like you need the long aerobar (this is the singluar bar that connects the arm pads to the aerobar grips). Judging from the diagrams I have it appears they make a long back half (from arm pads) and then a long front half (from the grips back, this one inserts into the back half).
If you get the Medium with those bits, you should be good to go, and yes, you're correct, the lowest the large goes is 620.
Ian
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