Below is what I could find on the Rossin geometry. If I recall correctly > the wheelbase was 39.5" I got it from a Schwinn shop in San Antonio. Bill, > the manager, looked me over and said to get a 54cm because it would be more > comfortable. Eyeball fitting. He was right. I had it for 20+ years. SA was > a smallish town then and had a fairly large racing club lot's of Germans > and Mexicans. We had road races, really personal time trials, that started > in Texas and ended in Mexico with homemade tamales etc. 10 cents to cross > the border on a bike. >
> I could roll out of the house and group ride 130 miles and encountered 3 > traffic lights. We would go up to Fredericksburg and stoped in a little > German café. We ate and ate. The owner asked if we rode our bikes from San > Antonio. Yes ma'am we replied. She asked, would you boys like another slice > of chocolate cake? The good old days. > FWIW, I still don't know why but descending on the Rossin was like being on rails. I moved back to Florida and wanted a similar bike with fatter tires and stumbled on the Rivendell site and this group. - *Seat Tube (c-t):* 54 cm - *Top Tube (c-c):** 54 cm * - *Head Tube:* 12 cm - *Standover:* 80 cm -- 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.
