Originally Posted by
Trakhak
A Surly Long Haul Trucker is about as heavy as 4130 steel bike frames get. It has a long wheelbase, too, which you'd like, since it's the long wheelbase of the Trek Earl that accounts for the comfort, not its weight.
Thank you for blowing my mind. How little I know about bike geometry. Some of you guys recommend hi-ten and I might just do that. Plenty of hi-ten bikes on craigslist. But now armed with the knowledge about wheelbases, I will save a lot of time not going down wrong alleys with my search. Now I'm going to spend an hour comparing wheelbases of different bikes, just because I find this fascinating.