One potential problem with long chainstays is trying to fit the bike in spaces designed around standard bike dimensions. For example, when our house was built, I got the builder to install a rack along the side of the garage so that that our bikes could be hung from their front or rear wheels, and set the height so that the longest of my bikes had two or three inches clearance to the floor. Any higher and my wife has problems lifting her bikes onto the hooks. But the Appaloosa I bought back in 2021 is so long that I can't hang it from the front wheel as the back wheel hits the ground with the bike a long way from vertical - the only way to hang it is by the rear wheel with the front wheel turned quite a bit sideways, but that doesn't work so well if I have other bikes on either side. Same problem on Swiss and Austrian trains, where the height of the hooks in carriages for hanging your bike is insufficient for these long chainstays. Not a problem with bikes on regional trains in Italy, as you just wheel your bike on and park it at the side of the carrriage. However, at Brescia railway station this morning, I had to carry my bike up and down the stairs to get to our platform, as even with the front wheel turned, the lifts were not long enough for an Appaloosa. My wife's bike fitted no problem.
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