I’ve finally run out of stem
After putting clipless pedals on the project bike for a while, I moved them over to the mlcm so I could see how they’d work on a reasonably long loop. Unfortunately, they put my feet lower than regular pedals, so I needed to drop the saddle a little bit (5mm?) which meant that the bars ended up a little too high for my tastes. So, after preriding the multnomah falls populaire yesterday, I needed to pull the bars off and pluck out the sole remaining spacer.
Sigh.
The only spacer-type objects left on the fork are my decaleur and bell, and I need both of them (the decaleur keeps the big rando bag stable, and the bell needs to be set above the decaleur to keep it from fouling the stem.) I put a longer-setback seatpost onto the mlcm after the breitenbush 300k, so I can always push the saddle back a little more to increase my virtual drop, but the physical drop is as low as it can go now (without putting a -17° stem on, which would, of course, foul the decaleur!) and I’m not really sure what I’ll do if I want more saddle to bar drop, aside from buying a lottery ticket, winning the lottery, then buying a torch and making my own frame.
On the bright side I think I’ve finally dropped my bars to the point where I can put on the ridiculously low-trail electra fork I got a few years ago, so I should go and get a couple of rack mounting points brazed onto it for experimenting with after the summer series is over with.