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Old 07-26-22, 09:44 PM
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Chilepines
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Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: New Hampshire
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Bikes: 1984 homemade 531SL road bike; 1988 Ritchey TimberComp; 1997 Nashbar tandem; 1998 Kona Explosif; Specialized Epic, Scott CR1 Pro; Salsa Beargrease; Curtlo custom Tandem, Curtlo custom S3 steel gravel bike.

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The OP asked about EFFECTIVE reach - which usually means to the bars. Otherwise reach is horizontal distance from BB to top of the head tube - which is what some other posts were referring to. FWIW my new custom steel gravel bike has the same effective reach as my road bike but gets there with a longer frame reach and shorter stem. A big part of the reason I went custom is to get those measures (and others like head tube angle and BB drop) the way I wanted them.
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