BBBs - Big Beautiful Bikes

normally it's not done to post your own bike

"I wanna see your big mamas, 60+cm" from OP.
Not that that matters; its noice.

It's a 60,5 cm C-T. Love my bike, she's now hanging on my wall

If anyone interested in a Campag 10sp Willier Escape in size xxl for £300 (posted) let me know.

/spam

Hello big people.

Not sure if this is the right place, but does anyone ride (or know of) a modern carbon OTP bike which has a fairly high stack and low reach?

I'm about 6'3" and looking for something lighter than the steel, mudguarded, heavy road bike I mainly use. A bike fit I did about 2 years ago gives me a bar reach of 441mm (BB centre - centre of crossbar) and a bar stack of 716mm (BB centre - centre of crossbar). Measured bar drop was a stacktastic 34mm. Since then I've improved flexibility a lot but still find aggressive drops a strain on my back and neck

So far the Cannondale Synapse seems to fit the bill but I find it horrifically anti. The Genesis Zero frame looks like it could work and the Cervelo R series claims it has a special fit system which I didn't understand but the geo seems to do the trick.

Any other options?

Canyon Endurance CF. Not sure of measurements, but probably in the right area for what you're after.

Cheers - they seem to be touting the fact it has a stack:reach ratio of over 1.55.

Useful little stat when comparing models.

Belongs to @markypoos

Belongs to @Botherington

Not quite 60cm but 59.5cm so rounded up.

Kinesis Decade Convert2 63cm from 2010. I'm 191cm tall (6 feet 3 inches)

Bonus: photos from the building process and evolution and the complete setup

Is the bike huge or the saddle small?

It really works for me, the only thing I hate is that everyone seems to focus on it instead on the custom "classic-look" build I did with nowadays components :)

Just in case you haven't seen another Duopower, and there hasn't been a debate on this kind of saddle I'll elaborate:

UCI ARTICLE 1.3.014 says: “The plane passing through the highest points at the front and rear of the saddle shall be horizontal. The
length of the saddle shall be 24 cm minimum and 30 cm
maximum"

So since this saddles have 18cm of length they are not legal for competition (I think this stupid rule comes from the Graeme Obree hour record attempts era). Thats the first reason to see a few of them on non-racing amateurs (and none on pro's), being aesthetics the second. The saddle nose is just a legacy from the horse saddles, like the modern keyboard layout comes from the first typing machines problems and not from a ergonomic design.

The idea behind is that you should sit on your ischial bones

and the rest of the seat doesn't have any other purpose than busting your crotch so.. why should we keep it?

Many old school cyclist have told me that without the saddle nose it would be much difficult to ride without hands... or to do high speed descents on the road bike or the mountain bike... or to climb very steep hills... But turns out they are all wrong since I've been doing those for more than 5 years now and making great times on brevets and races, without any numbness or nerve problem (and no crashes). I can "grab" the horizontal top tube of my road/mtb bike with my knees and be stable in rough descents, and also ride no-hands like anyone else.

TL;DR: The saddle may not be beautiful but it works really great, avoiding pressure on sensible/important parts of your body, and letting you have your legs closer to each other. I know its a bit controversial in a bike that was supposed to be built just for the looks.

Looks good. Nice photos documenting the build too.

Firstly apologies for spam, mine's a big 'un, a beauty and up for sale. I'd really like it to go to a loving new home

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/274307/

Lovely 59cm MAX Track bike in classifieds
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/275602/

haha edited because it was pearoast of Olly

for sale

link broken...

Weird: if I go to the page of the seller, the ad isn't there. But it does exist:

Set to private maybe? eBay item number: 111824726336.

Edit: How about when you try this link: http://goo.gl/rFH75V. Works for me this way.

65cm DA 7400 Columbus MAX Van Tuyl:

http://link.marktplaats.nl/m992395149

2 of my fiend bikes

My ex colnago 62ct