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Any tall people looking for a Gios road bike?

Old 08-15-22, 09:10 AM
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Holy wow, that is a big frame. I opened the thread looking for someone saying they'd found a good deal on a 65 of 66 cm bike and started doing math in my head about how I could fit one (I prefer 62-64) and what my budget was (and how I could slip one more in past my wife) and then I started scrolling down and kept scrolling down and kept scrolling down and the bike just kept going. Wow. Yeah, that's big.
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Oh. Nevermind.
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Old 08-15-22, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Moisture
interesting tip with the knees.

do you have/tried any modern xxl frames?
I have a largest-size steel road Ritchey Break-Away, which is not really my size but I can make work with the appropriate seat post and stem. I haven't had it up to sufficient speed where a speed wobble might kick in. Since the frame is small for me and since it has a sloping top tube, I'm not sure I could clamp my knees on it. Maybe my upper shins . . . .
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Originally Posted by non-fixie
What I love about bikes like is one is that they make my 64cm bikes look perfectly proportioned.
There's a guy over here selling two frames from German builder Krautscheid. I came across the ads looking for a Columbus Max fork, first I was wondering why did anyone leave 28cm steerer on the fork (my brain simply ruled out the obvious answer):



So this is the "smaller" 63cm - no info if C-T or CC, not that it matters but as big as it looks, it will look normal after a glance on the third pic.


And this big boy is 68 cms,


I have no clue if Krautscheid also made it to some basketball player, but told my friend these must have been the childrens bikes of the Yeti and Chewbacca for after school playing.
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