I think all really long people should have small frames with loooooads of seatpost sticking out (whilst claiming they have the correct frame size 😆 ), as they look really odd on their bikes and it amuses me. 🙂
What about freaks like me with long legs and a relatively short body? It has to be a long seatpost on a short toptube frame. Not quite up to the maximum mark on a 410mm Thomson, though!
Not a great picture but that’s how much I run when I’m riding XC. I’m not going to lie, the frame is too small but I like it, I am half-looking out for one in L (16.5″!) though.
PeterPoddy – Member
Up to the max mark on a 400mm post. Any more and you have the wrong size frame!
at almost (I use flats) full leg extension I run mine above the mark by about an inch on a 410mm post. (still inserts to below the lower TT/ST weld so it’s fine. and the frame fits perfecty and I run it slammed to about 4″ showing most of the time.
Mister P – Member
I like a small frame as it’s “chuckable”
HTF can that Gate be considered small?
No, I like running a long seatpost. When I first started in this game the bike shop advised me to run the smallest frame I could get away with, and I still see no reason to question that advice.
The mark on a seatpost is to try to limit the bending moment on the seatpost, not protect the frame. They have to make an assumption on the weight of the rider and include a safety margin so you’re obviously getting away with it!
You should choose a frame that is way to small for you, ride it with a excessively long seatpost, and claim you prefer riding smaller bikes because they are more “chuckable”.
Then, in true Stw style, start a thread cluelessly asking why your top tube has departed from your seat tube.
Edit: Special needs, the max height is to make sure you have enough post in the frame to stop you cracking it at the seat/top tube weld.
I managed to snap this one off last week.
There was around 25mm off post above the min. insert line in the frame.
I assumed that if a seatpost was sold as 400mm length including a min insertion line that anything more than that would be fine. I am not the lightest rider though at 87kg.
Perhaps I have shouldn’t have used such a lightweight seatpost but I guess I’ve learnt this lesson now.
So my saddle is level with my bars. I do have a low and long steel frame 29er and I’m partial to a bit seatpost showing….
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This looks good.