My Custom or Road Standard (not sure which) rides a lot lower than my Clem Smith, because, well, it is. It's a bike that came standard with narrowish tires by todays Riv standards and has 80mm BB drop. Then I went and converted it to 650B x38. It's really low. Like never pedal through a corner low. If I look down, the pedal seems alarmingly close to the ground. But I love the way the bike handles this way, it feels so planted, but yet you can easily redirect it in a fast corner. So I just don't look down at my pedal relative to the tarmac, and all is well.
The Clem on the other hand has not only less BB drop to begin with, but also 29x2.1 tires on it. Plus the riding position is extremely upright. Pretty much night and day between the two. I have to duck quite a bit for the trees on the sidewalk between the two halves of my neighborhood (which don't connect by road, so nice). My Redwood, which is shod with 700Cx38 tires and more or less in a stock configuration, falls somewhere in the middle. Random musings brought to you by, Jim Austin suburbs, TX On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 9:57 AM Piaw Na <p...@gmail.com> wrote: > I recently acquired a Roadini, and I've been puzzling over the way it > rides. It feels a lot taller than my custom touring bike, which was itself > based on a 1993 Bridgestone RB-1 geometry with longer chainstays (43cm) and > a 80mm BB drop. The Roadini has a 75mm BB drop, and I've got 28mm tires on > the Roadini vs 25mm on my touring bike, so in theory, that's only an 8mm > difference in BB height. But when I ride the Roadini it feels a lot taller > than that! Strangely enough, that doesn't affect handling on climbs or on > gravel, but on descents it makes me slow down quite a bit in comparison > with my custom bike. Did anyone experience anything similar? > > I've attached my frame geometry, and the Roadini 54cm geometry is here: > https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1403/7343/files/ROADINI-540-Geo.jpg?7649874663519573416 > > -- > 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/d043bbed-3e7f-4c70-aca3-999f63a34a93n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d043bbed-3e7f-4c70-aca3-999f63a34a93n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ signature goes here -- 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/CA%2BypmEa-B543Bga8QFqB-9XHq6_JE6kHqc9yQc6em2qRcr-9pg%40mail.gmail.com.
