What bikes are 6'4" blokes riding.

in message , Peter Goddard
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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.

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