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Tall bike thread (64cm and up)

Old 11-22-22, 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by panzerwagon
Well, mostly about the seatpost slammed way down. If you have sufficient standover clearance, do you ride with lots of knee bend? Or do you ride with reasonable knee extension but lay the bike sideways every time you dismount? A little of both?
The seat is at the right hight. I am 5 foot 10 I think and it is way too big for me.
Here is one of my normal bikes.
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Seven years ago I managed to obtain a 62cm version of the Gazelle Champion Mondial semi-race, basically the touring version of the bike that won the World Championship in 1969. A really nice bike, but I always felt the one size up would have been even nicer.

Which was just what finally popped up last weekend on a local classifieds site.

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64 equivalency in ATB's

There's a big Miyata Trail Runner for sale in my neck of the woods. I think they're getting scarcer.


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This thread needs more entries.

1989 Cannondale SR___ in the framset-only 66cm size. 1989 Dura-Ace 8-speed Uniglide groupset.


And its stablemate, another 1989 model, this time a first-year OS-tubed Paramount, also in 66cm. Same Vittoria Corsa 2.0 32mm tires (that measure small!). 6400-era Shimano 600 7-speed.
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