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@uolmo
Ok so,
After bending my last bank robber frame, the stainless one, by putting a beffy alumium fork and rushing head down straight into Cam bike's at the Euro Bench last year, im back with a new project. Still with Bank Robber (sammy moteur Fucker brand).
This time i go with a less sloppey geo, because the top tube was hurting my right knee too much when i was jumping.
This time he gonna make me a fork, so no more aluminium on steel. We decide also to drop stainless steel because of the price, we want to make a beefy prototype first.
I made it a little longer than last time too. And I'll go for weird angles, 71° instead of the usual 73-74°. I make it like that because right now im riding a EXS 52cm made for 700 wheells but with both 26 (same frame as the one i rode at wolrds, but i kicked out the back 700).
Even if the frame is not made for this set up, that's pretty confortable, with a 74 mm rake. My only issue is the bb height wich is 27.5. So i took almost the same specs but with higher BB.
Any other examples of this kind of angles? whats the usual rake you guys use?
PS
I noticed at the end that this bike looks a lot like todd one for almost all specs but angles (he have 74°, i have 71°). He have something around 6.4 rake and i have 7.4. But he's bigger than me. Does it means that my project is too big for me? (im 1m72).
Cheers.
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