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Old 08-26-13, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Bandera
Yep, exactly correct.

Here's the voice of experience on the relevance of seat tube angles:

"aggressive seat tube angles -seventy four degrees- often make it impossible to move the saddle back far enough to achieve the right pedaling position....with a seat tube angle of approximately seventy two or seventy three degrees you should be fine."
-Greg LeMond
Greg's comment was biased to his own body proportions. a 72 degree seat tube on my road bike would not allow me to get the saddle fore enough with my desired crank length of 180mm.
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