So, headset spacers, JUST how many is too many??

LardLover
LardLover Posts: 676
edited May 2009 in The bottom bracket
At what point of fitting headset spacers do you think, Mmm, there's one too many on there? :shock:

http://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum ... p?id=31104

There's more steerer out of the frame than in it FFS!

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  • Barrie_G
    Barrie_G Posts: 479
    Do you get the feelilng that the owner could have done with ordering a larger sized frame :roll:
  • LardLover
    LardLover Posts: 676
    I get the feeling he's paid good money for it and thinking to himself "by the love of God it will fit me" :lol:
  • scwxx77
    scwxx77 Posts: 1,469
    Barrie_G wrote:
    Do you get the feelilng that the owner could have done with ordering a larger sized frame :roll:
    Na, smaller frame is a weight saving!
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Storck is the wrong name for that bike, Emu is more suitable :lol:
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  • ColinJ
    ColinJ Posts: 2,218
    I would say that the owner is either a woman or a man of woman-like proportions. They've bought a small frame to get the right reach for their short upper body and then had to put the saddle right up to get it to fit their relatively long legs. If they didn't raise the bars like that they'd be reaching down an awfully long way.

    Doesn't look good though, does it! I'd want a bike more suitable for my particular body, rather than trying to make that one fit.
  • Lagavulin
    Lagavulin Posts: 1,688
    Holy hell! :shock:

    Is that a carbon steerer too?
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  • salsarider79
    salsarider79 Posts: 828
    One small pothole :shock: and thats the end of everything.... :wink:

    Some people have no damm clue....
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    It is certainly unique....
  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    Isn't there a fashion among racers to have the smallest possible frame and then make it fit? This may be an extreme example. Or maybe not. :?
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    There is no saddle to bar drop, either the rider has no flexibility or can't be arsed getting used to a proper position, either way it's all wrong.
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  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    I'm thinking the rider must have back problem or something.
  • jrduquemin
    jrduquemin Posts: 791
    I'm thinking the rider wanted a small frame so they could build up a really light bike (hence it being on weightweenies). Chances are thatwhen the realised it wouldn't fit or they were too scared to cut down the steerer tube, they decided to advertise it for sale :-)

    Doesn't look too bad for $1500 either....
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Any amount of spacers is too many.

    Slam it, every time :D
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  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    That's a liability - the bending load on the steerer will probably lead to premature failure. 2-3x diameter is the maximum recommended - but anything beyond 50mm suggests that the frame is the wrong size. I don't care how light it is - it's fugly!
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  • jrduquemin
    jrduquemin Posts: 791
    Monty Dog wrote:
    That's a liability - the bending load on the steerer will probably lead to premature failure. 2-3x diameter is the maximum recommended - but anything beyond 50mm suggests that the frame is the wrong size. I don't care how light it is - it's fugly!

    Absolutely, I have 40mm of spacers on my Roubaix (including headset spacer) but I still think I have too many on the bike. I would cut the steerer tube down but I'm a little nervous cutting carbon...
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  • Captain Fagor
    Captain Fagor Posts: 739
    Out bloody rageous!
  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    Sweet.

    I definitely need to get a 40cm frame and do that. I could cobble some seat posts together too (or scafholding poles).

    I like it :wink:
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  • SpinningJenny
    SpinningJenny Posts: 889
    Maybe they spent a lot of money on it as a teenager, had a growth spurt and couldn't bear to part with it?

    But are of course prepared to part with their life upon meeting a pothole at speed. :shock:
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  • mmitchell88
    mmitchell88 Posts: 340
    If only I'd had the imagination, I could have done the same to my Super Burner thus saving £££s over 25 years of cycling!!!
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  • SpinningJenny
    SpinningJenny Posts: 889
    Hindsight - it's a wonderful thing... *sigh*
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