mattr":318vplb0 said:
legrandefromage":318vplb0 said:
Modern is bolt upright, it sort of floats over everything enabling a magazine shot style stance every ride because you're gnarly.
Really? You really should buy a bike better suited to what you want to do.
FWIW I don't have a bolt upright bike. And the position on my carbon is within a few mm of my retro......... The fs position is pretty close too.
I just happened to read a review in MBUK of some entry level 650b's, and was amused to read their reviewer complaining that the bikes have too upright positions - too much weight on the rear wheel, making the front wander/lift on steep climbs, and giving a less efficient pedal stroke. What I didn't know is the old retro stretched / head down riding position allows a rider to put the powerful lower back (and some other) muscles into his/her pedal stroke, which can make for greater power output. Which makes sense if you look at how road bikes use a similar riding position to retro MTBs.
In the same issue, there's an article on pro MTB champion Jaroslav Kulhavý and the retro riding position he adopted on his otherwise thoroughly modern MTB.