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amey
@apc
So struggling to find a bike that fitted my specs I have become ever more tempted to go custom. However I am starting this thread to gather some advice as I dont really know what I am doing..!
I am after a road bike, with space for 28mm tyres, plus mud guards and rear rack mounts that fits me.
I own a caad10 that fits me spot on so I want to try and replicate the reach but with a bit more stack for comfort. One frame I saw that would have been perfect if it was still available was the tokyo fixed wide open.
my caad10 has the following stack/reach:
reach:368mm
stack: 517mm
I copied in the geometry of a 50cm tokyo fixed wide open as much as I could and got this:
reach:346.1mm
stack: 518.8mm
so it looks like I can increase both the reach and stack a bit. Hopefully a slightly longer toptube will help with toe overlap.
One bit where I have no idea what Im doing is designing it so there is enough clearance for tyres.. I copied the chainstay length of a geneis CDF (425mm).
The other decision is wether to go disk or not - disk would solve the tyre clearance issues with rim brakes, although the tokyo fixed wide open seemed to be ok with rim brakes.