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