Originally Posted by
BlarneyHammer
I already have a 29" bikepacking frame with 100 mm suspension clearance, and it fits me great! If anything, I feel like it's a little small. Size is 15.5", for what that's worth. My biggest problem with it is the shape of the frame itself, and I think the excessive seatpost look is goofy. If I wanted that, I'd get a folding bike.
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If I knew you had a bike and gear like that I would have saved a lot of time typing. Your photo makes my point perfectly. If you put a horizontal top tube on the bike, to get it on at the head tube your seat would have to be higher just to get the saddle on that big a frame. Thus, you would not fit on the bike.
And you can see that if you removed your rear rack and hung a bag from your saddle, that bag would be really close to the rear tire which was one of my other points.
Have you tried to put a bag above the top tube and strapped to the seatpost? The tiny little triangular bag on my bike in the photo below is not big at all, but it makes my point, you could put a bag like that but bigger above your top tube and strapped to the seatpost. Such a bag could be quite tall because you have a lot of room there. The bike in the photo is frame size 59 cm and has 26 inch wheels.