Eric explained how the Jones designs accommodates a range of riders in a single size, and Geeter pointed out that there's a Small (23") to go with the Medium (24") and the Large (25").
That's all very good, but still not what I was asking. I was asking how one chooses a size or how Jones recommends a size. How does it work? Since nobody has answered that, I'm guessing that it's probably exactly like I bought my mountain bike. I looked at some numbers on the Niner webpage and I guessed. I built it up and I changed the things I felt like I needed to change. That's pretty much how all mountain bikes work, and it's totally fine. Nobody "gets fit" on a mountain bike. Guess, buy, and ride. Tweak if needed, and guess again if you got it wrong. The more guesses you've made the more likely your next guess will be a good one. The reason I asked how it worked is that Jones bikes are being lauded as surprisingly good road bikes. Road bike fitting is more prescriptive, and road riding involves sitting there in basically the same position on the bike for hours on end, so it kind of needs to fit to be comfortable. Mountain biking is much more of a dynamic activity. You are moving around with the bike in completely different ways, and so 'fit' is not really a concrete defined thing. If the Jones is a bike that people use for long road rides, I wondered if the fitting was prescriptive and precise like road bike fitting, or was more of a 'guess and tweak' process, like mountain bikes. Sounds like it is more the latter, which is fine. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 2:00:55 PM UTC-8, Geeter wrote: > > Bill, Jones now has a 23" spaceframe plus for riders too short for the 24" > plus. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
