Originally Posted by
ad6mj
The Windsor chain stays look a bit on the short side at 420mm. The Fuji is 440mm.
Hmmm. I could have sworn the posted specs were identical at the time we were shopping. FWIW they do list the same length stays on the sizes I was interested in (43cm, 49cm, and 54cm). In those sizes the Fuji and the Windsor both have 420mm stays. I may not have even looked at the larger sizes.
Edit: I retract the above. I was mistaken, sorry for the misinformation.
That said we found the heel clearance quite adequate and the high speed loaded downhill handling solid with the 420mm chainstays.
ANOTHER EDIT: This just gets stranger and stranger, but I just measured the stays on my 49 cm Windsor Touring purchased in the spring of 2007 and they measure 440 mm. I wonder if the Windsor site has the specs wrong or if they changed them since my bike was sold? Anyone have a recent one they can measure?