Beth, I'm 6 foot and middle aged, don't know that I have shrunk much, but things have changed.
I was on a ride with the local bike club, riding next to a 20 year old LBS mechanic (riding a Surly Steamroller with very low drop bars) and middle aged lady. The young man and I were chatting about handle bars and he asked why my bars were so high..."Low bars make my back ache."..."But my back doesn't ache."..."Yes, but you're 20." Mechanic looks confused....middle aged lady starts to laugh. In the mid to late 90s I was fine on a 59.5cm Road Standard, now I'm fine on a 64cm Rambouillet. Touring bike was a 59cm All Rounder, now a 64cm Atlantis. I took my 59cm All-Rounder and converted it to Albatross bars (RBW made me a 14 or 15cm lugged stem to get the bars in the right place). I ride that bike after I have done something stupid and have a back ache. I can ride forever on that bike...my "bad back" bike. Low bars...I'm "beyond that" now :-) Angus "Middle age has benefits...a tolerant back isn't one of them" On Dec 29, 11:42 pm, b hamon <periwinkle...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I wonder if any of you have had a custom frame that you rode for years and > more recently have found that the top tube has become too long for you? I > would guess this happens more noticeably to the short-torsoed among us, since > as we age our spines compress and those with shorter torsos feel the > difference in the reach to the handlebars sooner than everyone else. > > But I'm beginning to suspect that this may be happening to me with a > 12-year-old custom frame that is no longer comfortable with drops on it (even > with the shortest Nitto Techie I can find). My suspicion may have been > confirmed at the doctor's office this week when I discovered that I was not > only no longer 5' 7", I apparently haven't been for some time. > > For someone who is, in her family of origin, very, very short (my sister and > all my cousins topped out at 6' or more), it was a crushing blow, for at > least ten minutes. > > Seriously, has this happened to anyone else? Is it possible to "outgrow" (or > outshrink?) a custom frame? --B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
