Looks alright in that pic above, weird camera distortion on the video.
I quite like the bike itself, i mean it's rumple fugly but in a quite sharp and purposeful way.
If I stand at my bike side on with the seat right up, it's well below my hips. Seems to fit me okay. When I see the PB bike check photos at races, all the enduro bikes with their seats up are up beside their hips, sitting relatively much higher than mine. Go figure. I wish I had an ounce of her talent.
That post about her wearing too much makeup...
Just down right odd...!!
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In this photo, it looks absolutely fine to me
Are you blind, man? Just look at those bloody awful skinwall tyres. Awful 🙂
Regarding the size of it - lol. I'm sure she knows what works.
Regarding the makeup etc. even bigger lol. Why do people even give a shit or comment about this stuff? It is literally no one's business but her own.
That post about her wearing too much makeup…
Just down right odd…!!
Exactly. Very odd.
Even weirder - I looked at her instagram - I don't actually see any pics of her wearing loads of makeup. I think she wears some mascara sometimes, but that seems to be it. It's a whole agenda imagined up out of nowwhere.
I think the issue with the look of the bike is that same problem that carbon frames created in pro road. They’re made to fit regular people more than the pros (in general) so you see ridiculous bodges to make them fit. Like the huge negative rise stems or Cadel Evans TT bike where the stem came out the front of the head tube.
29” wheels look daft on small bikes the same way that road bikes for really tall people look.
DH bikes always look about the same somehow, regardless of height so no one ever comments on how DH bikes look, unless they’re gopping. Which the Sender definitely isn’t.
29” wheels look daft on small bikes the same way that road bikes for really tall people look.
I’m a really tall person with a road bike, I resent that and so does my bike 😅
I did a skills course with Jedi years ago, he appeared to be on his big brother's bike.
Fortunately Tony wasn't wearing makeup that day so I didn't have to tell him he was wrong.
Also, the suggestion that a large successful bike brand doesn’t know how to design bikes, but an internet forum does, is a bit odd.
It would be a mistake to think there aren't people that know what they're talking about on forums. I know for a fact designers (even for brands as big as Trek or Giant) trawl through forums and reviews looking for issues and things to improve. Bike brands don't always get things right. The Procaliber is a good example of this. Clearly Emily was struggling to get the seat far enough forward (72.5 angle) and the bars low enough. Lo and behold the redesigned model after has a steeper seat tube angle and lower stack height.
Trying to get the bars as low as possible can be a symptom of a seat tube angle that's too slack. Or more likely in the case of pros it puts the rider in a better position to get power down. I had a Syntace FlatForce stem recently and it really works.
I've been rewatching the Rob warner meets... series on YouTube, she does look tiny, then again so did Kate Courtney and even some of the guys when stood next to Rob.
If you haven't seen any, check them out, Rob is always good entertainment.
Well Emily is small at just under 5'3" and Kate Courtney is I think just over 5'3"
