Just curious to see photos of bikes owned by tall people – to see how they set up the stems/steerers, seatpost, length of head tube, relative saddle/bar position, etc.
For those of you who’ve swapped from 26″ frames to 29ers, would it be fair to say you’re running fewer spacers under the stem, or a lower rise stem than you did on your 26″ frames?
Road bike, BTW: [url=https://flic.kr/p/Dt9Wrd]Cannondale CAAD8 Sora 61cm[/url] by tracksterman, on Flickr
For those of you who’ve swapped from 26″ frames to 29ers, would it be fair to say you’re running fewer spacers under the stem, or a lower rise stem than you did on your 26″ frames?
Yeah, I had risers on the 26″ and a couple of spacers but have flat/5mm bars on the 29ers
Bigjim, you’ve swapped for a parkwood now, haven’t you? Any pics of it. I’m really interested to see how the reach and position works out compared to the lurcher.
Bigjim, you’ve swapped for a parkwood now, haven’t you? Any pics of it. I’m really interested to see how the reach and position works out compared to the lurcher.
no pics but the L parkwood is definitely shorter reach than the XL lurcher, maybe 2-3cm at the bars based on a highly scientific hold the frames against each other test. If I was just doing xc stuff like the Selkirk marathon and Glentress 7 which I bought the Lurcher for I’d stick with it as it really eats up the miles, but for short steep woods action which I do most of the time the Parkwood is better and not much heavier. Shame they didn’t do an XL.
I’ve just swapped components over onto an old 26″ 8500 frame I had kicking about, following the demise of my Inbred.
It rides fine but I’ve never liked the aesthetics of piles of spacers under the stem. I guess I’ll be biting the bullet and buying into the 29er thing when this one breaks, so at least that’s one problem solved.