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Doing a little survey.
Please post your height and the reach measurement of your current bike
6ft 2 (189cm)
480mm
172
No idea at all
175cm
479mm
5'9 3/4" and which bike?
Sorry
179cm
455mm (on both)
193cm
491mm
182 cm
Bike 1 434mm
Bike 2 454mm
which bike?
Tandem. From the rear seat to bars.
Tandem. From the rear seat to bars.
Still less than a geometron...
Just over 6 foot
426mm
434mm
446mm
475mm
480mm
All ‘large’
HTH
179cm
475 + 470
170cm
Hardtail = 402mm
Full sus = 450mm
173
450 on full suss
180cm
Hardtail 446mm
FS 450mm
183cm
490mm
5'8"
444mm (2019 FS, Cotic Flare)
435mm (2018 FS, Spesh Levo)
410mm (2014 HT with drop bars, Spesh Stumpjumper)
Probs less than 400 (2008 HT, Seven Sola)
6ft 3in - 190cm
510mm
174
460mm (FS)
180cm
484mm Mondraker Vantage Large
Tandem. From the rear seat to bars.
1380mm
185
493
6ft4 (193cm)
522mm reach.
6’2”
Errrr, bikes are cool aren’t they 🙂
5'9" with long arms/body and short legs (29" inseam), 480mm with a 35mm stem.
173cm
Full suss - 450mm
Hardtail - 459mm
About 172cm/5’8”
Ion GPI (Geometron) 485mm
Sick Wulfbaron 455mm
Bird Zero 418mm
Onza Jackpot No idea, probably similar to the Zero
Whyte G-150 445mm
6'4"
435mm 2009 hardtail
456mm 2016 full sus
397mm 2020 gravel bike
5’8”
470
188cm
507
453
6’2” (189cm) with short legs (32” inseam)
486 mm (HT)
475 mm (FS)
I hope we get a good graph out of this.
177
190 wingspan
Singular Puffin 414 75stem
Stooge scrambler 431 65stem
Cotic Solarismax LS 457 35stem
175cm tall/short
471 reaches
176cm tall.
462mm reach.
192
492 FS ebike
Is someone going to do something fancy with the data - graph or something?
5’9
457mm on an FS Bird Aether 7
Was 432mm on a ht Vitus Sentier but waiting on a Marino to arrive with 445mm (still ht).
Short ish arms vs height so I know I don’t want much longer reach - 481mm on a full suss always felt a bit too much even with a 32mm stem.
These short seat tubes are great though - even at 5’9 I’m running a 180mm Oneup Post and there is 2-3” of lower post out of the frame so I think I could go to a longer drop probably.
184cm
490mm reach (Bird AM9 with 170mm fork)
Also, I think wingspan is at least as important as height when talking about reach. 195cm here
179, 455.
Really interesting that there isn't much of a consensus here!
5'10 and 440-something. Wish it was a bit more.
Really interesting that there isn’t much of a consensus here!
I’m not surprised since there is no consensus amongst my own bikes and I love them all. Vive la différence!
168 and my 26" BFe is 412 on Cotics site but no idea what stem this is with
Really interesting that there isn’t much of a consensus here!
One measurement in isolation is pretty meaningless.
175cm
485mm
Age of bike is a determiner too - anything over 4 years old is unlikely to be long in the reach (with a few niche exceptions) but many will be longer in the equivalent "size" now.
188cm
2016 XL full sus 475mm
2020 "long" HT 510mm
5ft 9in 430 reach
How are we measuring reach? Middle of seatpost to middle of stem or nose of saddle to closest edge of stem?
Daft question but I enjoy playing a game and want to make sure I'm not cheating!
