Seated, hands-on-hoods is one of five. If you've been fitted only to this position, you bought one-fifth of a proper fit session. All five postures inform both bike and handlebar geometries.
I'm forced to repent of a long held tradition of mine in bike fit. I'm abandoning, in some cases, the use of body angles as a determiner of position appropriateness.
This road bike fit protocol is designed to work with fit bikes that adjust horizontally and vertically; to take advantage of stack and reach data matching; and to consider all the positions common to ...