I've noticed some people seem to use their seatpost astronomically high. It looks very kool, but how do they get away with it without suffering the consequences? Is it by purchasing small bikes frames and thus being able to compensate by using their seats very high?

yea, you're right

Fake pursuit geometry olol.

got any pics?
I have a small old frame I'm building up and I'm planning to put a long seat post on it so I can attempt to fit on it decently. if it ends up being a stoopid idea I'll eventually sell it.

compact geometry?

Future chiropractic and orthopedic patients?

Excibits:

1. Big guy, small bike
2. Small bike

and that looks like the CVS on boylson st.

60-62 gets ahold of my junk on standover height.
58 doesn't, but my 250mm seatpost is almost to the minimum insertion mark on my 58 frame.
I don't even wanna talk about my "59" IRO.

how tall are you??

i tried it for a while, i had a wonderful frame that was just a touch to small. the bike was fantastic but i just couldnt get comfortable on it for longer rides. ride bikes that fit!!!



(when this had drop bars, i just had the b125s... the drops were just above the top of the fork crown.. it was silly)

6'1" or so. I've got really odd dimensions though.

buy an IRO, they have standard sized TTs but silly small STs

I wanna know what happens cause we might be the same height and I have a Sputnik that size.

Im with jonnywill on this one, Im 6'2 and I ride a 58, maybe its just me, or the bikes Ive tried but a 60 seems to big for me (as far as stand over goes)

well i've just got a ton of seatpost showing...thats all. in trying to keep with the black/yellow color scheme i put my black 250mm seatpost in it and it wasn't tall enough...so i swapped it out for my big long kalloy seatpost, which i think is 350mm.

I was fitted for this frame (59) and I don;t know. I stressed my right knee and now it is bothering me. It might've been the 48x15 gearing it came with. This bike being my first bike since I was a little kid.

I've got a 24" Hiawatha with 26" wheels that just fit. I've used a solid aluminum seatpost to get up over the frame.

Ya know I'll sound like a c**k when I say this but stand over height is a really poor method to get fit for a bike. FME on a proper track frame with a high BB your bits will almost always be on top tube. Running small frames is kind of lame you'd be faster on the right frame anyway. First thing I look at when picking out a frame is Top tube ctc. My 2 cents..

Sometimes you fall in love with a frame thats too small, and you have to make do. When you're above 6 feet its sometimes hard to find the cool classic frames in your size.

don't shoot me if this is a stupid question, what going on with your rear wheel? what is that?

nevermind...volos hub. i'm ********.

the guy who makes the "Big bike look small" used to be called seatpost at the new england velodrome races. but yeah, tall people have trouble fitting on anything, especially with the shift to s, m, l, xl sizing.

Onetwentyeight what tires are those? That is a gorgeous bike, I can see why youd ride it even if the fit was ****ty.

continental sprinters (tubies). old ones

the rear hub is actually a chronos prototyle track wheel, not a volos, the volos are based off of the chronos.