I'm 6'7", see my prior post, the position of the bike relative to the ground does make a difference ;)
Jim from Oregon who lives in the Austin suburbs of Texas for a long time now. On Sat, Sep 10, 2022 at 5:32 PM Karl Wilcox <kwil...@weimar.edu> wrote: > I am 6’6” tall, so I ride ‘tall’ no matter what. I ride a 61cm Roadini, > but do not find that it rides taller than my other frames (I have a 69cm > Mercian frame, for example). But, I also ride with my bars about 1 inch > below saddle height. If you lowered your bars, the feeling of riding tall > would probably change. > > On Saturday, September 10, 2022, 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> >> . >> > -- > 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/CADftY8hpmGeOiVXxK-k7OPUmvYthCzJCARMCK5Ox2ijDTBNEpA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CADftY8hpmGeOiVXxK-k7OPUmvYthCzJCARMCK5Ox2ijDTBNEpA%40mail.gmail.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%2BypmEbdkZbM44Q9_NcGtdeAAc6ym2fBu_2sUFNAXeqcaF0esA%40mail.gmail.com.
