IMO, no. Bottom Bracket height has been shown by some of the deepest thinkers about bikes to have very little to do with actual stability on the bike. Grant likes low BB because it makes it far easier to get the bars up. Low BBs get you the risk of pedal strike when you use small diameter tires, and the converse that you point out is true: low BBs give you permission to run large diameter tires.
Jan Heine concluded that BB height on its own has very little to do with handling at all. The general consensus is that BB height is very meaningful to fit the person on the bike comfortably, but has little to do with how the bike rides. Objectors to that conventional wisdom will state anecdotes "I had a bike with a high BB and it rode like crap" etc. That doesn't prove that BB height had anything to do with the bike riding like crap. Correlation vs Causation. All of the above, IMHO, ATMO. On Friday, November 6, 2015 at 9:10:16 AM UTC-8, Kainalu wrote: > > Bottom bracket height is as big a factor to this sweet spot as anything, > yes? Presumably Rivendell bikes and similarly low bottomed machines give us > the tools to go extra puffed? > -Kai > Brooklyn NY -- 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.
