About the bike standing up in the car with no wheel removal (something I am interested in and struggle with since I ride tall 700C bikes)...
... Do you think that Atlantis in the review is 700C or 26". Because if it is 26", I wonder if someone chose the Atlantis for the review specifically because of the 26" wheels. These do two things: - Make it easier to stand it up inside the car. - Give the illusion of the bike looking like a bigger frame than it really is if you subconsciously assume you are looking at a 700C like I tend to do. So you might say, "hey a tall bike can fit in there!" I'll explain below: I don't know if others have had this happen, but when I see a fully built 56 cm Atlantis in photos without being told the size, I have often instinctively assumed it was a model in the 60's of cm. I think this is because I use the wheels as my reference point for scaling. If the wheels are truly 26", but my brain erroneously assumes they are 700C, then that causes me to perceive the frame as a big one when it is really just a medium. In fact when I look at the Ford review still shot of that Atlantis, I think it does look like a 700C, but I'm not sure; maybe I'm being fooled. If it is 700C in the review, then dang, that car's roomy, because head tube length indicates it's a 64 cm 700C Atlantis (like mine). But my guess is that it's a 56 cm 26-incher, because I just don't see my big bike fitting on top of those folded up seats. (And for record, I have brought my Atlantis to car dealerships when car-shopping. It's a big factor in the deciding.) - Jim W. On Nov 26, 2014, at 4:43 PM, eflayer wrote: > http://finance.yahoo.com/video/ford-transit-connect-2014-2015-154141113.html > > Could not quite believe I was seeing an Atlantis? with mustache in the back > of this van. Am I seeing things? > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. James Warren [email protected] - 700x55 -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
