Frame sizing and short legs hellllllllllp
Celtic Dragon
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Been looking at bikes at my LBS and I have a bit of a quandry!! :shock:
Now I have something that in my family is affectionatly known as ducks disease!!!
Now I'm not a shortarse at 6 feet tall but I only have a 29" inside leg.
Tried alot of bikes (HT's) now a 16" frame gives me a bit of room between toptube and my nuts, but feels too short, where a 17.5 - 18" frame feels right but my nuts are dragging on the top tube :oops: I see that becomeing painfull in a foot down in a hurry senario.
The 16" frame with a longer stem got it feeling right but then but the bars infront of the front axle.
Any suggestions round this?? Help and guideance is appreciated. And to cap it all I have just seen a very nice XTC frame for sale.
Now I have something that in my family is affectionatly known as ducks disease!!!
Now I'm not a shortarse at 6 feet tall but I only have a 29" inside leg.
Tried alot of bikes (HT's) now a 16" frame gives me a bit of room between toptube and my nuts, but feels too short, where a 17.5 - 18" frame feels right but my nuts are dragging on the top tube :oops: I see that becomeing painfull in a foot down in a hurry senario.
The 16" frame with a longer stem got it feeling right but then but the bars infront of the front axle.
Any suggestions round this?? Help and guideance is appreciated. And to cap it all I have just seen a very nice XTC frame for sale.
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Seatpost with loads of layback on a smaller frame is about all I can think of that would help
As for specific bikes the intense 6.6ss is an example of a frame with very low standover yet quite a long front triangle...I guess youll just have to look at the specs on various frames0 -
Look for frames with extra gonad clearance like this and get the right length (not recommending this frame per-se)
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Ducks' disease made me smile.
This is quite an interesting problem, since your proportions are obviously different to most other riders.
I'd think you should be looking at traditional XC race-style bikes, perhaps like the XTC that you mentioned - or maybe even longer in the top tube.
What would be a stretched-out racing position for most riders might just be more like a normal riding position for you - with your longer torso (and presumably arms).
Were you planning on buying blind off the internet?0 -
Chang, if and a big if, if I can get the XTC frame for the right price then I'll suck it and see as it was an XTC that we were fiddling with in the LBS. THat way I shouldn't loose alot of money on the frame on resale.
If not it will probably come down to a long hard wait and look see to find a frame that is almost perfect the fettle from there.0 -
The other possible solution (if not a cheap one) is to have a frame custom built for you. That way you can get a short seat tube but a long top tube.
A custom built frame is never cheap (typically starting at around £400 for a steel one, virtually impossible to find someone who'll custom build aluminium, but titanium is available too), but look at it as a long term investment - the frame will fit you like a glove and you can specify all the extra bits you want on it that an off-the-shelf frame may not have.0 -
Oh well, back to plan A. The 456, I'll have to email them tonight.
Missed out on the XTC frame by £5 with 5 seconds to go
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Maybe if u looked down the back of the sofa, u might find enough money for one of these:
wow...
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