I have had one pretty bad accident that left a lasting impression: I was riding on off-camber singletrack, with a bit of a rocky exposed drop off. Got in over my skillset on a technical part, and put a foot down. Unfortunately it was the down-slope foot, and double unfortunately the high top tube prevented me from getting it anywhere near the ground before I flipped over the side of the trail. Landed on a pile of boulders about six feet below, luckily nothing broken on me or bike other than my computer. Since then I've been a fan of sloping downtubes :-)
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 9:07 AM, 'jinxed' via RBW Owners Bunch <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Ikky - I am 5'9" with a PBH of 84.5 > > I will certainly echo Johans comments regarding the moustache bars. As > Rivendell suggests, they require a short and upright/tall stem. If I was > running an albatross style bar, the 59 hilsen I had for a while would have > perfectly fine. Personally I don't find standover much of an issue. Even > though I was stretched out, I rode the 59 frame with M-bars all over the > Fruita MTB trails and never once had issue. I honestly cant think of a time > in 30 years of biking that I fell in a manner that I would have landed on > the top tube. Usually I'm more worried about the top tube hitting me in the > head when the bike lands! > > On Friday, December 12, 2014 12:54:43 PM UTC-7, Ikky wrote: >> >> For those of us considering a Hilsen, what's your PBH / actual height? Hi >> by the way. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Cheers, David Member, Supreme Council of Cyberspace "it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride." - Seth Vidal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
