Having a bike with a very low top tube, I can testify to one reason to get the top tube right up there: frame bag space. I love my Surly Krampus and appreciate the lower top tube, but still I envy the other riders whose frame bags can hold more than a tube and some tools.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Wayne Naha <w.r.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like this line of thinking. It does seem like like getting that top tube > right up there is mostly for tradition. My Clem is going to be a smaller > than I would normally ride, so it looks like my seatpost and handlebars will > be hiked up dork fashion. > > On Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 7:07:14 PM UTC-4, Joe Bernard wrote: >> >> Conversely, this would put me on a 45cm with a low standover height. After >> years of riding folders with the frame way down there, my creaky 53-year-old >> body has completely lost the plot on towering toptubes. They're up there in >> the way for no reason other than most nice bikes used to look that way. I'm >> over it, and I think I would be very happy with a Clem. >> > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Anne Paulson It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
