Need help lowering front end

Triathlon Forum
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I’m looking for quantitative help on lowering the front end to improve my position. What I’m looking for is a compilation of armrest height relative to the pursuit bar for the various clip-on options. I’m presently using Syntace C-2, which I know is fairly tall, but I’d like to have some numbers in hand before committing the dollars for something new. I’ve already done all I reasonably can with the stem (no spacers and negative 16 degree stem), so other than a new frame, the aero bars seem to be the place to look.

In summary, can we consolidate some of the numbers on armrest height for readily available clip-ons? It might even be useful to include armrest heights of integrated bars so it is all collected in one handy place (beside being collected in Tom D’s memory).

Thanks, Dave

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well if this helps, the HED clip-lite bars are practically sitting on the top of the base bar. The bottom of the arm-rest is about 1mm from the top of the base bar.

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I put on a negative 40 degree stem with gave me another 3cm’s.

Also bought the Hed bars. The pads are about 3 or 4 cm’s lower then the profile pads. With the Hed clip on I guess you would get 3cm lower then the Syntace bars.

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I think the C-2’s are the same height as the Streamliners. I just changed from the Streamliners to the Vision Tech clip-ons and dropped 3/4 inch. I still have the spacers in the Vision’s and can drop another inch by removing them, but if I did the armrests would hit the basebar so an angled basebar would be needed to do it.

Hope this helps

jaretj