[RBW] Canti Rom Sizing
Hi, I am helping a friend who is interested in purchasing a used Cantilever Romulus. His PBH is 84. The bike is a 59. Riv website says for most smaller/av riders its PBH minus around 25 to get frame size...thats 84-25 = 59!but I'm nervous it will be way up there and the Romulus geometry chart has the standover for the Rom listed as 83.8cm and that's on 700x27's. He'd like to put 700x35's on. Can anyone help me with this. Experience with this frame. Is a 59 just a bit too big for a 5'9'' rider with a PBH of 84? Thank you! Jason -- 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.
Re: [RBW] Canti Rom Sizing
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:32 AM, jandrews_nyc jasonaschwa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am helping a friend who is interested in purchasing a used Cantilever Romulus. His PBH is 84. The bike is a 59. Riv website says for most smaller/av riders its PBH minus around 25 to get frame size...thats 84-25 = 59!but I'm nervous it will be way up there and the Romulus geometry chart has the standover for the Rom listed as 83.8cm and that's on 700x27's. He'd like to put 700x35's on. Can anyone help me with this. Experience with this frame. Is a 59 just a bit too big for a 5'9'' rider with a PBH of 84? 35-27 = 8 8/2 = 4 so the height of the bike should only go up by about 4mm. 84.2 Now - a person with an 84cm pbh has that while barefoot. Normally, you don't bicycle barefoot. So factor in whatever the avg height of the soles on some shoes - normally 1-1.5cm is not ridiculous. so now their standover is clear by about a cm. It's not much - but it should be enough. I think the thing you should be thinking about, though, is TT length. Is your friend going to be all kinds of stretched out? Figure out that dimension, too. -sv -- 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.
Re: [RBW] Canti Rom Sizing
I am just shy of 6'2 (PBH of 89) and ride a 63cm Canti Rom, usually with 28's or 32's. Works for me, but did seem a little tall at first. Ralph jandrews_nyc wrote: Hi, I am helping a friend who is interested in purchasing a used Cantilever Romulus. His PBH is 84. The bike is a 59. Riv website says for most smaller/av riders its PBH minus around 25 to get frame size...thats 84-25 = 59!but I'm nervous it will be way up there and the Romulus geometry chart has the standover for the Rom listed as 83.8cm and that's on 700x27's. He'd like to put 700x35's on. Can anyone help me with this. Experience with this frame. Is a 59 just a bit too big for a 5'9'' rider with a PBH of 84? Thank you! Jason -- 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.
Re: [RBW] Canti Rom Sizing
I'm 5'11 with PBH of 89.5 and ride a 61cm AHH with 35mm tires and a 61cm Atlantis with 50mm tires. The Atlantis with the 50mm tires is quite taller, but gives me enough clearance. Bigger tires, assuming they'd fit would make it uncomfortable but still rideable. The top tube is perfect and I use 8cm stems on both. My saddle height is at 87 IIRC; otherwise it's at 77... I'm on vacation with the family and the sun is impairing my recolection... :-) René On 8/5/10, Ralph Rognstad Jr. rognsta...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I am just shy of 6'2 (PBH of 89) and ride a 63cm Canti Rom, usually with 28's or 32's. Works for me, but did seem a little tall at first. Ralph jandrews_nyc wrote: Hi, I am helping a friend who is interested in purchasing a used Cantilever Romulus. His PBH is 84. The bike is a 59. Riv website says for most smaller/av riders its PBH minus around 25 to get frame size...thats 84-25 = 59!but I'm nervous it will be way up there and the Romulus geometry chart has the standover for the Rom listed as 83.8cm and that's on 700x27's. He'd like to put 700x35's on. Can anyone help me with this. Experience with this frame. Is a 59 just a bit too big for a 5'9'' rider with a PBH of 84? Thank you! Jason -- 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. -- Sent from my mobile device -- 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.
