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in message , Peter Goddard
') wrote: Hello, The last bike I had was 20 years ago. It was a 25 3/4" Dawes Galaxy. Now I'm ready to buy another bike but it appears that people have shrunk! What bikes are tall people riding these days? It seems that 60cm is now XL. There don't seem to be many 60cm bikes in the shops either. I tried a 58cm but the seat post was so long it looked more like a mono cycle. Boo hoo. The geometry has changed. Toptubes are (relatively) longer for the same length seat tube. Whereas twenty years ago the fashion was to have very little seatpost exposed, now the fashion is to have much more seatpost exposed. In theory this is about making the rear triangle stiffer but in practice it's about not having to make so many sizes of frame. Twenty years ago I road 26" frames. My twelve year old bike has a 25" frame. My last-year's bike has a 24" frame, but is longer on the top tube, and I could have got away with one size down. I was 6'3" before I smashed my fifth thoracic vertebra; now I'm a bit over 6'1" but my legs are still the same length. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ my other car is #Subr-Car: #5d480 ;; This joke is not funny in emacs. |
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:21:46 -0000, "Dave Larrington"
wrote in message : My mate Big Iain (6'6") has an HP Velotechnik Speedmachine, a Windcheetah and a home-built low racer, but I imagine that's not quite what you had in mind :-) It is, on the other hand, /exactly/ what I had in mind... Guy -- http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk "To every complex problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken |
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Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:21:46 -0000, "Dave Larrington" wrote in message : My mate Big Iain (6'6") has an HP Velotechnik Speedmachine, a Windcheetah and a home-built low racer, but I imagine that's not quite what you had in mind :-) It is, on the other hand, /exactly/ what I had in mind... Why would you be thinking about his mate Big Iain? Tony |
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:10:03 +0000, Tony Raven
wrote: My mate Big Iain (6'6") has an HP Velotechnik Speedmachine, a Windcheetah and a home-built low racer, but I imagine that's not quite what you had in mind :-) It is, on the other hand, /exactly/ what I had in mind... Why would you be thinking about his mate Big Iain? Simple: Mr James' bike shed would be well worth raiding if it weren't for the fact that (a) he's bigger than me so some of the bikes may not fit and (b) he's bigger than me. Guy -- May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting. http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk 88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at CHS, Puget Sound |
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