Originally Posted by
Sixty Fiver
Before you start shopping you really need to know what size of frame you need... there is a wide variety of frame sizes being offered there and the taller framed bikes seem to have the nicest specs and seem the cleanest looking.
You'd have to have some pretty long legs to ride those.
If you're hunting for vintage steel with a horizontal top tube, you really need to know how size is measured, and bring you own tape. There are three common ways: center of bb to center of seat lug, center of BB to top of top tube, and center of BB to top tip of seat lug.
Why are such details important? Because there can be up to a 2.5 cm spread between these three types of measurement, and that can be important in deciding if frame is going to work for you.