It may well fit you nicely, but I bet it don’t look right!

I’ve met dozens of people when out on the bike. Most have commented on how in proportion it looks. Most hadn’t realised it was even a 29er because it looks right. Not the best pic, but it looks just like a FS mountain bike with a longish seatpost:

I think 29ers best point for many tall people isn’t any BS about bigger wheels suiting taller people better but simply that the bikes look in proportion.

Most people don’t realise that my bike is a 29er because proportionally it looks like a 26″ one (except for the -ve rise stem, I guess).

Another member of the TSTW club! Does seem to be a disproportionate amount of tall people here though. Or are we all making it up?

Photos?

Considering the 29er thang, but only because it does seem that the proportions are more appropriate for those who are vertically challenged in a different way.

And those Sultans do look awfully nice 😉

I’m
191cm
6’3

I’ve met dozens of people when out on the bike. Most have commented on how in proportion it looks. Most hadn’t realised it was even a 29er because it looks right. Not the best pic, but it looks just like a FS mountain bike with a longish seatpost:

Meh…no sideview? You’re cheating! To be fair, considering its size, it’s got as gate-ish as it could be…seen much worse.

i’m 5’11.5″, 85KG and ride a 19″ 29er

FFS – Gok Rusty isn’t sure whether it looks out of proportion to him!

Here it was first built up – still looks like a FS bike with a lot of seat tube:

Arrghh…as I suspected! There may be many advantages in being tall, but owning pretty bikes ain’t one of ’em!

An awful lot of very tall people on here !

5’10” 12st10 ( work in progress to get back to before I stopped smoking)
32 waist ( …has been this for the last 30 years)

I blame a working class up-bringing in a deprived northern mill town. 😉

…feeling distinctly under tall !

Five foot nine-and-a-half inches.

The half inch is important.

I used to be 5′ 10″, but I’ve a knackered neck, so I’ve shrunk.

I am 6′ 1″ if i’m lucky,

And about 9 stone 8 on a good day.

I have the racing snake road bike physique, but sadly no interest in that side of bikes.

5′ 4″
8.5 stone
Monkey arms and skinny legs though, so not in proportion.

short enough for someone on here to suggest that I would look like a kid riding his dad’s bike if I bought a 29er

owning pretty bikes ain’t one of ’em!

Oh well. If the worst I have to suffer for riding a superb bike is a short angry man whom I’ll never meet telling me on the internet that he doesn’t like how it looks, I’m OK with that.

😆

Photos you say?
Edit: i give up, used to be able link a photo now all i get is a blue square.

If the worst I have to suffer for riding a superb bike is a short angry man…

How dare you! I’m not angry.

Is this a thread to identify the Sirian royalty on this forum?

Not as small as you might think, but not big either.

175cm
78kg

My forum name has no height connotations, and I’m 6ft dead. And alive.

I’m 5 ft 5

How tall am i?

What’s that got to do with you ya £%&*#” ;&£&)&!!!!

5’2″ obviously.

5’11

173cm.

6’3″ (191cm) 34″ inside leg
50″ chest so I ain’t light, but do have big lungs 😉

MTB frames mostly 20″
Road 60cm
Only have 26″ wheeled mountain bikes and if I’m honest when I see pictures of me on them they do look like I’ve stolen them off some kid

185cm

5’9 1/2″ and 68kg.

5’0

Thanks all. But where’s Flashie?

I think he’s 5’5″ but I bet he’s actually 6’+.

A very average 179cm/70kg (5’10.5″)

I am 185cm and thought I was above average…. never mind! My wife’s family all played top-class basketball in Germany – the father in law is 2.02M and he has introduced me to people who are 2.15M tall – I feel like a little kid!

A small tall 6’4. Good views but crap for hide and seek. And the number of times i’ve cracked my head on things isn’t even funny. God knows how the taller lads cope.

6′ 1.5″
Using old fashioned notation

6’8″
110kgs
I’ve lost 10kgs so far this year, don’t really want to go below 100 as its be all skin and bones 😉

5ft 11 and 67kg! I’m a twig, but can still give someone a good slap when needed 🙂

ElShalimo – Member
6′ 1.5″
Using old fashioned notation

Sir, I’m so frightfully sorry, but didn’t you mean “6′ 1 1/2″?” 😛

Oops

Al – have you produced some sort of graph yet? Are you doing something useful with this mine of data generated? Well ARE YOU?!? 😡

Flashy hasn’t posted yet – noted.

Flashy hasn’t posted yet – noted.

Gotta be a shorty. That’s why he doesn’t like jeans. It’s OK flashy, turnups are in fashion now.

160cm and 52.5kg.