Do sloping tubes decrease in angle as the frame size increases?
09-13-09 | 02:10 PM
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Does a sloping top tube decrease in angle as the frame size increases?
When I look at theses bikes I'm almost always thinking about an XL frame and how it would look. Does the angle of slope decrease on bigger sizes?
Noob question, but hey...
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09-13-09 | 03:17 PM
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Read the geometry chart for the brand in question. Not all brands do the same thing. LOOK's have very little slope in the large sizes, but others have little slope in all sizes.
09-14-09 | 09:19 AM
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09-14-09 | 02:23 PM
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Actually no brand that I know of calls out the angle of the slope, but they do sometimes list the amount of drop at the ST/TT intersection. That's what LOOK does. In the case of brands that don't list the drop you can only read the total ST length or perhaps the c-c ST length and compare it to the head tube length to get an idea of the slope.
