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Originally Posted by Rocket-Sauce
(Post 23638704)
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Originally Posted by Rocket-Sauce
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Originally Posted by Sedgemop
(Post 23638762)
Do we know who made the track bike? Don't think I've seen that one before.
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Originally Posted by Sedgemop
(Post 23638762)
Do we know who made the track bike? Don't think I've seen that one before.
...Eddy Borysewicz, the National coach, did me an important favor, by measuring me and arranging for Ted Kirkbride, who also built the American Masi bicycles, to build me a pair of bikes that really fit. Ted sent to England for special heavy tubing normally used on tandem bicycles, then built me both a road and a track bike, and they were just fine. It way my first experience with what it’s like to be on a bicycle that really fits and has good rigidity, and I can vouch for the advantages of this." From https://maddaps.wordpress.com/2009/0...llest-cyclist/ |
Great, thanks guys. Good to see that about using special tubing, especially. Had wondered if that was the case for these giant frames.
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Originally Posted by Sedgemop
(Post 23638819)
Great, thanks guys. Good to see that about using special tubing, especially. Had wondered if that was the case for these giant frames.
But the other issue with that frame, is that with fairly conventional angles in geometry, he's almost sitting over the rear axle, so balance is terrible. Climbing hills might be a challenge to keep the front wheel on the ground. But if you make the seat tube vertical, you lose the relationship with crank center, even if the bike is fitted perfect so you don't need the effective lengthening of the top tube as the saddle is raised. And, that would require an even longer horizontal stem, which is already pretty long for steering dynamics. I think I would have set the rear wheel further back with longer chainstays and seatstays, that would give it better balance, and ride. |
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