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I didn't know this existed and as someone who is in the process of buying a new ride this is great! I can now have a pretty good idea how my position will be on any bike.

However, I have no idea of what I should strive for when looking at the angles? Are there some well-known ideal values I should look into?

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I don't know if anyone can prescribe "ideal" hip/knee/lean angles for you. In general you can lay bike ergonomics out on a spectrum from sport bikes on the one end, with aggressive, crouched, forward leaning rider positioning, to cruisers on the other, with laid-back, feet-forward ergonomics that relax the hips and knees but, I would argue, make for a less active riding position. In the middle you have "naked bikes," "sport tourers," "adventure tourers," "adventure bikes" and "touring bikes" all of which feature more or less upright seating positions (or at least more upright than sport bikes and less laid back than cruisers. I prefer a sporty, active riding posture but at my age I cannot sit a sport bike for very long, so I ride a Suzuki v-strom 650 which is relaxed enough that my knees and hips can take it for a couple of hours straight.

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