Pano The 47cm CS and your gearing (46-32) computes to a CHAIN length of 57.5", or rounding up to 58". This allows for the normal 116 link chain.
John Hawrylak Woodstown NJ. On Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 10:27:05 PM UTC-5, panog wrote: > @John H. > > The 47cm chainstays were Grant's decision and seemingly one of the twists > he did on my Hilsen-like custom. The thinking is that there is no reason > for shorter than 47 considering also that my SH is at 80.5cm. The notion > here is being positioned less on top of the rear wheel which would affect > comfort. Grant also mentioned that the longer stays would not affect the > ability to adjust the line the bike takes around a turn. > The 47-49cm stays are more evident at the Riv touring style bikes ( ie > Atlantis and Hunq) vs. the more roadish style Roadeo. Even longer stays in > excess of 50cm appear to be the direction RBW is now taking with the newer > Appas, Rosco, etc > My experience with these is very superficial and limited to a couple of > hours on an Appaloosa. Until now the longest stays I had on any of my other > bikes were 43.5cm on my light touring and 41.5cm on my racing-like. I could > do a wheelie at will with either; particularly easy on a steep up-slope. > > > > On Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 6:58:56 PM UTC-5, John Hawrylak wrote: >> >> Pano >> >> The 47cm CS seem 2 to 3cm longer than normal. Were longer CS >> a conscience decision???? >> >> John Hawrylak >> Woodstown NJ >> >> On Friday, February 3, 2017 at 10:03:11 PM UTC-5, panog wrote: >> >>> >>> CS length 47cm >>> >> >> >>> >>> -- 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.
