did a lot of climbing earlier and gave me lot of pain in my lower back. Currently running a 60mm stem thank you

I have a what seems like a 100mm stem on my specialized allez and the reach feels a little bit longer to me. I am trying to find a 90mm stem, maybe, what angles should I be looking at. My current one says this and I am unsure if that means a -8 degree angle. Is this what +16/-8 mean? On the stem, it says "rise is angle closest to the dot".

I don't have any back/neck aches but do feel like my hands are usually stretched out a bit too much, elbows arent exactly locked but it's pretty close to that.

Also any recommendations on stems? I am not looking anything fancy...

I apologize if this is a dumb question. I'm new to using cycling to train vs just riding around town.

I'm set up on an indoor trainer. The bike saddle just feels uncomfortable after 45minutes. I can survive by standing up etc. I am wearing padded shorts. On my weekday rides up to 1.5 hrs I just wear unpadded spandex. I was able to ride for 5 hours today.

I've seen people say indoor trainers are just uncomfortable because there's less movement in the bike and in your body positioning vs outside.

Is the fact that I'm able to ride for so long mean the saddle works for me? Are they just always going to be a bit uncomfortable? I can return the one I have and keep looking - or should I just stick with it and try to dial in the fit/placement to make it more comfortable?

I really would like to know if anyone had problem like this and how solve it.

(Posted that with a Image illustration, but it got removed for 18+). Basically my saddle pressure is far foward my seatbones. Somewhere on the pubic area, perineum sides or something like that going to the tights.

I already posted here before about my saddle problems. I'm facing it through years and only gets worse. I already had bikefits, changed saddle multiple times, rode with low saddle, high saddle, cleats backwards, cleats fowards, 100mm stem, 90mm stem, lowered sti, highered stis, tilts, etc.

Basically, I never gets stable on the saddle. The one that I liked more, and its the last one I rode for more time is a Prologo Scratch M5 140mm. I'm always changing positions due to pressure points. The main pressure is at my perineal sides (on the edge of the perineum and my inner legs/butt). I get home full of pain and with red skin. No matter what bibs I use, what saddles I tested. Some more, others less. But the problem is always there

Some said my bike was "too long". So I decided to change it and bought a new frameset. (SuperSix EVO 2020). Indeed a little shorter reach, with more spacers available than my other bike. Got a video of me riding and I feel that I'm curving my lowerback too much (maybe because of the pain, so I try to keep may butt on the saddle and not the thighs).

I gave up changing saddles, since everybody says saddles can be ok when well positioned. And due to the fact that I already tested a bunch of saddles. So please, don't tell me to buy SQLabs or SMP (these are not available at my country and very expensive and ugly). 

I really would like to know if anyone had problem like this and how solve it.

I noticed that the Tarmac SL8 in size 52 has stack / reach of 527/380 whereas the size 54 is 544/384. Since both have the same seat tube angle of 74 degrees, doesn't that mean the seating position relative to the BB will be the exact same? And therefore, the only change in fit between these 2 frames is the difference in stack / reach of +17 stack and +4 reach? I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything as I'm pretty new at this. Seems like with just a tiny increase in reach, you get a decent increase in stack which makes the 54 a bit less aggressive than the 52.

Hi all,

Before spending money on a bikefit I would first like to know if I could tackle my problem myself.
Mostly, could a smaller handle bar have a positive impact on my wrist pain.

More info on the situation:
I recently bought a new mountainbike, but after riding it for approximately 1h30 my wrists and hands start hurting, especially my right wrist. I try to switch up my hand position as best I can but it doesn't help.

With my old mountainbike I never had this issue (also never had it with my road bike).
Saddle height is the same, handle bar height almost the same. I just remembered I didn't measure the distance between the handle bars and saddle, but I can't imagine it will be a big difference.

What is a big difference, is the width of my handlebars. Comparing to my old bike, the handlebars on my new on are much wider (76cm vs 64cm).
Could a smaller handlebar fix my wrist pain? Or would I be better off with just going to a professional for a bikefit?

I read a lot of replies here saying to pitch the seat up or tip it down more. I didn't know seats could do that. Possibly because mine doesn't. Lol

If they can't all do it, then I think it's a feature I'll want to look for in a replacement.

If you want to get the best possible outcome from posting your position on this /sub, there are a couple of things you can do to help,

1. Make your video at least 30-40 secs long [ no longer than 60 secs ] This will allow you to settle in to your pedal stroke and give viewers enough time to 'look around' your position.
2. Post a minimum of 2 angles. #1 Seat height, showing the entire bike and rider from the top of the head to the bottom of the pedal stroke. #2 from the front dead center about head tube height. If you shoot a vertical format on your phone that might help you fit yourself within the frame. #3 from the rear, at seat height, can also be vertical format for cropping.
3. Post a shot of your bike side on without you on it. This lets people see the 'build' as far as seatpost seatback, seat rail position & headset spacers

The more visual and information you give the better the possibility of good feedback.

Ride on!

Continue to have ischial tuberosity pain, worse on the left on both my XC bikes and indoors. Had multiple fits, done tons of self experimentation, currently in PT to help with right sided muscle weakness due to a back injury years ago, think it finally caught up to me. Overall I've tried multiple saddles, etc. I tried to mimic the saddle height etc on my indoor bike as much since I don't have a trainer for my XC bikes. I have the same saddles on all bikes now, a heat molding Reform saddle, left side seems to have a bigger dent.

https://youtube.com/shorts/EPKE9HDY17c

how should i measure my shoulder to know which dropbar length to buy?