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Old 11-18-12 | 06:26 AM
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Originally Posted by twocicle
^^^ leaving the eccentric in the upper half of the rotation almost never makes any sense. The 2pm position is usually not ideal unless you have some special case which is?

Those teams that have a stoker about the same size or even taller than the captain have problems getting the stoker bars high enough. Placing the eccentric in the top half raises the captain's seat post head and allows for just a little more height the the stoker stem/captain seat post interface.
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