82cm frame from late 1920s or early 1930s.
02-27-22, 08:47 PM
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82cm frame from late 1920s or early 1930s.
I can't imagine how tall someone would need to be to have this be the right size for them. Probably someone who is 7 foot 6 is my guess.
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02-27-22, 08:51 PM
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Here is an 81cm from the early 1900s, but this one has an incredibly short top tube. I honestly don't know if there is any people that exist that this would be good for.
02-27-22, 09:02 PM
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02-27-22, 09:48 PM
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02-27-22, 11:13 PM
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02-28-22, 01:17 PM
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I met Kareem once. I was working at an electronics store in west Los Angeles, and we kept our boxes of headphones on a high shelf in a center display / room divider. He was looking through the headphones, so I walked around the divider to help him, and, to my shock, he was not standing on the little stepladder we kept there for the rest of us mere mortals. )
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I've asked this before, but how can anyone ride that without struggling not to pop unwanted wheelies anytime the road goes more than about 3 degrees? It does not take much incline to put the rider's center of mass behind the rear axle, which is an open invitation to go all Peter Sagan, all the time. I would think longer chainstays would be the thing to do for such a tall bike.
Of course, I am not a frame builder - just a pretty big guy who has the wheelie problem on one of my bikes (the one with the shortest chainstays) on any hill over 9 or 10 percent. This is not snarky question: I'm genuinely curious and would love to hear from folks who know more about frame design that I do (which should cover a lot of you).
Of course, I am not a frame builder - just a pretty big guy who has the wheelie problem on one of my bikes (the one with the shortest chainstays) on any hill over 9 or 10 percent. This is not snarky question: I'm genuinely curious and would love to hear from folks who know more about frame design that I do (which should cover a lot of you).
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I've asked this before, but how can anyone ride that without struggling not to pop unwanted wheelies anytime the road goes more than about 3 degrees? It does not take much incline to put the rider's center of mass behind the rear axle, which is an open invitation to go all Peter Sagan, all the time. I would think longer chainstays would be the thing to do for such a tall bike.
Of course, I am not a frame builder - just a pretty big guy who has the wheelie problem on one of my bikes (the one with the shortest chainstays) on any hill over 9 or 10 percent. This is not snarky question: I'm genuinely curious and would love to hear from folks who know more about frame design that I do (which should cover a lot of you).
Of course, I am not a frame builder - just a pretty big guy who has the wheelie problem on one of my bikes (the one with the shortest chainstays) on any hill over 9 or 10 percent. This is not snarky question: I'm genuinely curious and would love to hear from folks who know more about frame design that I do (which should cover a lot of you).
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02-28-22, 04:45 PM
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Rigardus Rijnhout, nicknamed the Rotterdam Giant, rode bikes in a big boy size.
Occasionally he'd let a friend try it:
Occasionally he'd let a friend try it:
03-01-22, 11:37 AM
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When I was much younger, working in a bike shop in Palo Alto California, Jobst Brandt would occasionally drop in for a visit. At the time he was riding a very tall orange Cinelli which he custom ordered in person at the Cinelli shop. He had insisted on very long chainstays for the very reason you stated. Cino's comment on this particular feature was "Bruto, bruto!"
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Jeebus - his feet appear to be the same length as his chainstays!
Also, somebody needs to gently inform him the ball of the foot, not the arch, centers over the pedal spindle
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Also, somebody needs to gently inform him the ball of the foot, not the arch, centers over the pedal spindle
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Somewhere there was a discussion about pegs for mounting the vintage bikes on the fly.
I see rather long axles, but I think it may well have been some kind of actual step.
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I met Kareem once. I was working at an electronics store in west Los Angeles, and we kept our boxes of headphones on a high shelf in a center display / room divider. He was looking through the headphones, so I walked around the divider to help him, and, to my shock, he was not standing on the little stepladder we kept there for the rest of us mere mortals. )
we lived on the same floor in the dorm one semester during our undergrad days at UCLA in the mid-1960's
he was still (big) Lou Alcindor back then
the dorm folks had to fit his room out with a special bed to accommodate his length
we chanced to meet again about forty years later as be both stood on the same street corner in Beverly Hills waiting for the signal to change
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I am 6'6" and love seeing all of these bikes that are bigger than mine.
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