Originally Posted by
ColonelJLloyd
Cool frame. Is the tubing metric or imperial?
Seat tube looks pretty slack to me. The steeper the HTA the lower the mechanical trail for a given fork offset and tire size. That said I don't see what implies that this bike was intended to have low trail or to otherwise be a randonneuring frame specifically.
It seems that the HTA was slack, TTs long and stems so short on older randonneuring frames was more a function of small riders on small frames (toe overlap) than anything else.
Fair points, Colonel. My guess is that the seller hit upon the
randonneur designation to draw more views. Nothing about it ever screamed "rando" to me. The tube lengths interest me the most, to be quite honest. As for your first question, I'm not going to speculate until I have a chance to actually do some measurements. (OK, I'll guess...probably metric.)