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I think I’m at the 1 in 1 out stage of bikes, or at least ongoing projects. I think that’s an inch too big for me anyway.
I checked with the seller on the Hobbs Blue Riband on Ebay - it is Bristol so local to me and £40 is a good price even with 2 tubes to be replaced. Anyway, 1952 by my understanding, so another nice project:
That’s probably an inch too small for me (edit - going on the seattube, which seems a worse measure than top tube imo).
I know that an inch either way isn’t the end of the world, can be solved with more/less seatpost, stem projection, etc. I’d be interested in @clubman’s opinion / experience, or anyone else, ... I know the fashion was for big frames with saddles on the top tube, short projection and now it’s small frame, long projection, weight forward. When was a big frame fashionable? 40s/50s? Has that fluctuated? Seems like it’s just been a move towards smaller frames.