Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

This is probably a repost. Probably from me.

Still dreamy as fu.

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Still poorly fitting as fu.

How do you feel so?

Being on the internet gives us all a comprehensive knowledge of bike fitting ;-)

Yo I'm all for positive stems and spacer stacks and whatever else still being "correct fit"
But you can't tell me that 5cm of seatpost is a good fit. Anybody who needs their saddle that low in relation to the top tube is gonna have trouble standing at traffic lights

Not to mention crushed genitalia if they land on the top tube in a crash/accident/wobble. Which is not unlikely considering it's a gravel bike.

Hopefully reader's wives are ok here. Just put this one together.. sorting out some hose length issues and stuff, as the groupset came off a racier colnago, but:

Clearly no ones ever seen a Ridley cross bike under a pro....

Cross is for people that aren't fast enough to race on the road and not skilled enough to race MTB

Cough Wout van Aert cough Matthieu Van Der Poel cough

Cough don't care cough

cri evrytiem

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The list is endless

I don't see any Ridley cross bikes.. Or am I missing something here? This is the gravelbike/arkose thread right?

It’s a comment on how Seat tube visible isn’t such a deal.

And somehow Stybar being to good for cross proves that?

Cross is for people that aren't fast enough to race on the road and not skilled enough to race MTB

So how come MVDP rocks up to XCO races and hands the field their asses?

My guess is that the owner wanted a level top tube in combination with that specific stack height

These letters mean nothing to me

'Not enough standover' isn't in itself a problem. Like overlap, the rider learns to deal with it.

Yes

My guess is that the owner was wrong

This is the gravelbike/arkose thread right?

For the moment, yes

Tomorrow, who knows