Not a clue. After this version they went to a 57.5 effective top tube. I can ride it as a city bike just fine, and so I am not rushing to get rid of at all. It rides very well and stops superb. Would be a lovely bike for someone if I were to sell it, but I have no plans to.
It truly is 'the largest frame I can ride' :) On Friday, October 21, 2016 at 1:32:59 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > If you like a drop bar, and like the bar at a certain height, instead of > using bar height as a variable in bike fit, 59 is pretty long, slack seat > tube notwithstanding -- too long for me, whose perfect road fit would be > 60 X 56.5 (or else a 57-58 with sloping tt). > > The 58 cm Ram had a 57 tt and fit me perfectly; wonder why the Sams have > such long tts? > > Anyway, one learns the hard way -- deals too good to pass up are often > deals that ought to be passed up. I learned that the hard way. > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Belopsky <belopol...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I recently got this bike, and it's awesome and I ride it daily, but it's >> a tad bit big. It's green, has all the Rivvy bits. >> >> I'll trade for a 54-55cm something else Riv. Currently I have less than a >> fistful of seatpost. I mounted a Carradice bag and it's angled and not >> great. >> >> Measures 59 effective top tube! >> >> PBH of 83.x and this is right there in the groin for me. I don't mind >> that, but a cm of clearance would be better. >> >> Here's a bad photo of it before I adjusted it some more which dropped the >> seat even further. >> >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qiVLnacJJuI/WApOOvJikpI/AAAAAAAAB5Y/KypAN05OPGcZPwEEQC1T1gI8lqkYcPcLgCLcB/s1600/IMG_2703.jpg> >> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > ************************************************************************** > ************** > *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a > circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and > individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu > > *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the > world revolves.) *Carthusian motto > > *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart > > *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
