Originally Posted by
yoder
I have a 1972 Raleigh sports. It is a secondary commuter. I stay above 15 mph average on my 6 mile each way commute with a number of fairly short hills. I also have a Novara Fusion and a steel road bike built up from a Fuji Marseille 2003 frame. The Fusion isn't any faster in most circumstances and the road bike is only a little faster; just a minute or two probably in six miles. I'm not really a fast rider or in that great of shape, but I pass full kit roadies on my Raleigh Sports on the MUP regularly.
This sounds pretty similar to my situation, actually. Thanks for the insight. I'm 6.5 miles, no hills, and ride a Novara Randonee. Also not in the shape I should be.
In that picture of the Sprite, the seat is really low. I wonder if the seller had it too low or was too small for the bike. With a Sprite or Sports the seat (Brooks B72 perhaps) should be about level with the middle front of the bars I think. Maybe it's just the perspective on the photo and the fact that it isn't the diamond frames I'm used to.
That was one thing I noticed as well - it looks set too short to me, too.
Originally Posted by
Loose Chain
If you are a girl they look fine, a guy, not so much.
I'm married... I've long since stopped caring about image.
Besides which, I like step through frames.
