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Old 06-07-17 | 08:51 AM
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dieselrover
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I guess this thread is aging a bit, but I just grabbed a second Lynskey frame on ebay so I'll have a road and a gravel bike.

One important thing to consider, especially when comparing different Lynskeys is that the frame sizes don't always line up... meaning that if you think you are an 'M' then you may not be an 'M' for all of their frames.

For example, I'm typically about a 54cm frame and bought the medium R250 (54cm top tube). Built it up, love it, beautiful. I started looking for something with similar geometry, but with more clearance so I could build up a gravel bike. There were some medium versions of both the Cooper and Urbano on ebay, but on closer inspection, I noticed that the SMALL versions of those frames had almost the exact same geometry aside from the head tube angle... In fact, the cooper small has a longer reach than the medium R250...

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measurement			R250 Med		Cooper Small
seat tube			50			50.54
top tube			54.1			54
head tube angle			72.5			71.8
seat tube angle			73.5			73.8
bottom bracket drop		7			6.56
chain stay length		415			435
head tube length		15.7			12.4
rake				45			45
standover height		77			77.5
wheelbase			985.4			1017.7
bb height						28.3
front center			580.5			591.3
stack				556.2			546.4
reach				375.8			380.2
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