I love Alba bars for the more upright position for commuting and scanning my environment when I ride. I had this same problem when I first started to build bikes as I have very long arms and a long torso.
https://flic.kr/s/aHsjBBA4v5 When I set out to build this Homer, I could fit on the 59 or the 61 by PBH. I chose the 61 for a longer top tube, and chose a stem 2 cm longer than usual at 11cm. I think it is still a cm short and will probably switch stems in the future. What I lose, is top tube clearance, which on a bike I use to commute is a problem every time I stop at a traffic light. Next experiment was this: https://flic.kr/p/uVq6GA The Cheviut has no top tube so the frame is large and long, and designed for Alba bars. Most importantly, no PBH checks every time I stop... On the non-riv front, Lemond used to make bikes with exceptionally long top tubes. I have a Lemond Poprad, which was their cross model and has room for larger tires, although the BB is high. I have toyed with changing the bars on that bike too. Michael On Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 7:47:19 AM UTC-5, Christopher Cote wrote: > > No, not cargo cycles. I bought one of the Nitto Bullmoose bars from > Rivendell. It's a really wonderful bar, very comfortable and beautiful. I > put it on my early 90's Bianchi Nyala mountain bike. The problem is that > with the extreme sweep, the reach is quite a bit shorter than before, and > now I feel a little cramped. The Bianchi has a 58cm top tube, and to get a > similar reach to what I had before (and have on my other bikes) I'd need a > frame with a 64cm effective top tube. That's long. Looks like the Rosco > Bubbe would get me that, but man that's an odd bike. The Clem Smith Jr is > close at 61cm. So, I have two questions for the group: > > 1. All of my road bikes have drop bars, and my mountain bikes have fairly > normal straight-ish bars. I see a lot of pics of road bikes (Homers, Sams, > etc) with swept back or upright bars that reduce the reach considerably. > How do you get on with that? Just adjust to the short reach? > > 2. What other bikes out there have loooong top tubes? Other than modern > gnar-shredding mountain bikes, of course. I want something with a Riv-ish > design like 72 deg seat tube, low BB, etc. > > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
