"I have been hanging bikes from the seat tube for years with no ill effects because:"
The risk (to me) is the seat tube decal. If somebody moves the frame in the clamp, the decal can get smeared. When you are all alone in a workshop that's all on you, and I'm sure you are careful. Some of us have worked at bike shops and more than once, I'd clamp a bike that way and another coworker would squeeze past and shift the bike and wreck a customer's seat tube decal. That's not my coworker's fault. That's my fault for clamping over the decal. Just be careful. It would be a shame to smear the decal on such a lovely machine. :) Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at 6:20:58 AM UTC-8, lconley wrote: > > The frame angles are supposed to be 72 deg seat tube and 71.5 deg head > tube. The top tube angle is 6 deg. > > Not sure how much head tube extension there is - somewhere around an inch. > The steerer tube is threaded and I will fill whatever gap is not taken up > by the brake cable hanger with spacers - probably slip an orange one in > there somewhere. The brake cable hanger and 29.8 seat post shown are > temporary. I have a Paul Funky Monkey front hanger on the way as well as a > 30.0 seat post. I am going to use a MT-10 100 mm 25.4 Dirt Drop stem, 225 > mm long for the initial setup with Rene Herse 460 mm Randonneur handlebars. > The long stem will allow me to get the bars up where I want them without > getting the stem expander into the threads. I am just shy of my 64th > birthday, so slammed stems are a thing of the past. I have been riding drop > bars for about 49 years and like the variety of hand positions available. I > am looking forward to being able to use the dirt drop stem and not having > the tradition "7" shaped stem poke me in the gut when I am stopped and > standing over the top tube. > > I got a 27.2 to 30.0 seat post spacer yesterday so I can hang by a > 27.2 seat post now for those who worry about such things. I have been > hanging bikes from the seat tube for years with no ill effects because: > 1. I don't over tighten the clamp > 2. I keep the clamp grip surface clean > 3. On Paramounts and Rivendells you cannot hang by the top tube due to the > off-center brake cable placement [note that the custom has a centered brake > cable (so does the Frank Jones Sr.)] > 4. Due to my long torso and short legs, I tend to ride frames that are too > tall for me to get a longer top tube, thus there is not enough seat post > exposed to clamp. > > I have 20+ bikes including 10+ Rivendells and have fenders and racks and > triple cranks, etc. on many. I wanted the clean look of naked forks, seat > stays and dropouts from the racing bikes of my younger days. I describe the > bike as a old, fat man's racing bike. Grant would not allow me to chrome > the forks and stays or even the dropout faces. Fenders don't do much good > in Florida when it rains anyway. I have saddlebag and handle bar bags when > I need to carry stuff. And yes, I must confess to having plaid matching > Nigel Smythe bags. I even have a tiny center pull mounted rack with a ecru > colored Ostrich bag that matches the cream headtube fairly well. haven't > come up with cream colored cables yet. > > Laing > Delray Beach FL > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/6f7126b4-dd98-4bd9-8670-84a5e6a30524%40googlegroups.com.
