Originally Posted by
joehayes999
Thanks for the info.
A couple of inches too short for me. I find it difficult to get vintage bikes in my size, I am 5'7ish and inseam is 30". Most vintages I have seen are way bigger. I was looking at a 54x54 Motobecane but the standover height was 31" so it wouldn't work for me. Modern bikes work ok because of the sloping top tube. So I guess I am looking at a 52 seat tube and 52 - 54 Top tube or thereabouts, but I'm not finding any.
For what it's worth, I wear a pants with a 30" inseam and stand 5'8". A perfect fit for me is 55cm C-T with a comparable top tube length -- both Capos and the Bianchi. Echoing the "forget seat tube length" suggestion, I rode a 23" C-T Nishiki for many years. I could barely straddle it, but it had such a short top tube that I needed to get a longer-reach stem. Conversely, my 57cm Peugeot PKN-10 was so long in the top tube that I needed a minimum-reach stem, which did not look great, but which made the bike fit me fairly well.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069