Old 02-07-19, 10:54 AM
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Higher stack + crotch room. Without the crotch room it's just a rando bike.

Seriously, I think the whole slanted top tube thing is to allow a single frame size to accommodate a wider range of human sizes, so a manufacturer can get by with 5 frame sizes instead of 6. Yet another way to cut costs.

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