>>2018829Just watch some videos and read sheldon browns website. Oh, and make sure it's the right size spoke nipple tool. Do not go ham with the wrong tool.
>>2018830> I get sharp pain inbetween my shoulder blades/traps/rhomboid/neck area quite rapidly when riding on the hoods. I ride most of the time on the drops. Honestly I can't tell if I'm too cramped due to high stack and short stem, or I'm just too long. The whole bike just feels wrong. Too cramped. Especially since you ride most of the time in the drops. I think just lowering the stem would be enough. If you have some spacers to flip above the stem I would slam your current stem so it's in the lowest setting. Ride for a week, then see if you adjust to a better position or not. If you are too long you will ride on the "tops" or "ramps" more often since that part of the bar is closer to you then the hoods or the much further drops.
To me your bike's specs seem to have a long top tube, and the head tube is reasonable to a vintage bike, but on those you have deeper drops and longer reach bars. I prefer to ride with more reach and less drop, but people are different and I adapted to this as a teenager so it's "normal" to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbuK4-HXhxYIs an interesting video on this issue. I have ridden a bike with too low of a handlebar and I did roll my shoulders forward+extend my fingers. Haven't done too high since I just bend my arms more on bikes with taller headtubes/stack.
Just try stuff and make decent changes at first, then when you know what direction is feeling better reduce that till you end up where you want to go. If you had a local used bike store/community shop those places have cheap stems and parts to swap out for this type of stuff. I would only buy new if you knew the bar setup would be perfect.