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It's a 52cm. From what it feels like standing over the crossbar, I think the stem may be marginally short. That being said, when I've got the STIs on there that will of course change. I'm about 5'6" give or take, but short upper body, so reach can be annoying.

I am 5'8" and cannot ride anything with a horizontal top tube longer that 52cm, my ideal being more like 50.5 to be able to use a normal length stem and hoods/drops.
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I'm 5'9" and the Surly I'm building is a nominal 50cm frame, but the TT is 535mm. I like a short reach anyway, but even more so on a tourer. It just shows you can't decide based on what size they market the frame as, I measured the reach on my other bikes and calculated what I wanted for the Surly I was pretty shocked when my figures said I need the 50cm frame with an 8cm stem. Now I've sat on it though it feels pretty good, I could probably go even shorter, though I think toe overlap could become a real problem.

At 5'7 i ride 52 square with a 100mm stem, just bought a 53cm top tube bike so will need to play around with stem sizes i think.

Dwarf head tube club UNITE

It should slide in easily. If you bash it, it will never come out.

I am a complete bike novice. Only this past half an hour have I learned it's called a quill stem. It's lowerd all the way in now. Looks hawt.

Thanks for advice.

Also they look great IMO.

Rightly been posting in porn, love it toby.

I am a complete bike novice. Only this past half an hour have I learned it's called a quill stem. It's lowerd all the way in now. Looks hawt.

Thanks for advice.

Is your name Frankie Howerd?

Is your name Frankie Howerd?

I don't follow Sir?

It's lowerd

Frankie Howerd?

I don't follow Sir?

Get it now?

Has anyone tried the Zipp Service Course bars? I use a 46cm 3T Ergonova at the mo and wanted to try a Service Course (Short & Shallow) in 46cm on the new build. Looked for a Drop Bar thread in Bikes & Bits but couldn't see one.

Me and 2 riding mates use Zipp SC, can't reccomend them enough, great shape. I've got the standard drop in 40cm however.

Get it now?

I do, apologies.

I'm on a 9-5, 9-4 today, tired eyes, bad grammar.

Bottle cage, stem, saddle and polish lager

Tyskie, personal favourite

Its mine, its mine!

Now, do I take it apart and give everything a good polish and leave it as 7 speed campag,

or do i try it out with the sram 10 speed rival i have?

According to sheldon, a 10speed campag cassette shouldnt cause any issues with the sram gear system..

nice.

get a crank puller

;)

saturday, is treat day...!

nice.

get a decent crank puller

;)

ftfy

I am hampered by something as simple as a year cable guide. Nowhere local (that's open on a Sunday at least) has one. None of my spare frames have one either.

#sadface

Its mine, its mine!

Now, do I take it apart and give everything a good polish and leave it as 7 speed campag,

or do i try it out with the sram 10 speed rival i have?

According to sheldon, a 10speed campag cassette shouldnt cause any issues with the sram gear system..

Owner doesn't know and I can't pick it up yet.

Is it likely to be italian threaded BB?

Got racks?

modern for me. getting there slowly.

flea market find + my parts bin + forum sales + hutch + union cycles

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Just ordered the Zipp Service Course Short/Shallow bar in 46cm. £34. Not bad I think. Hopefully not too wide for me.

Been playing around with the Spotter Bars™ and not finding them as good as I thought, as they're more stretched out than I was expecting.

So decided to measure them today and found them to have 10-15mm longer reach than Spotters cover website describes them as having.

In the meantime I having found another producer that makes 46cm wide bars, the 3T Ergonova.

I know they're only gonna be 46cm from the c - c of the drop ends and not the hoods, but its still better than a kick in the balls.

Anybody else found this with a Spotter Bar™, or did I just get the last of 2009 production that were that length or something?

Pm the publicity rep?

Latest update of my Baco:

Replaced the wheelset, saddle, grips and bars..

I picked this up on ebay for 35pounds. listed poorly, with only one picture from below. noticed it was without a rear chain stay bridge, figured it could be damaged or a fairly nice frame, decided to take a risk:

it came with campag chorus ergopower shifters, chainset, f+r mech and a box of bits that didn't go with the frame. it had a bad rattle can paint job, and bb shell was full of paint. today i got out some paint stripper to clean the bb. revealed a little bit of the original paint. quite a nice light green/blue.
i gave it a light wipe with the stripper and the black paint came off.

stuck some wheels on. probably just give it a clear coat, don't want to get too precious, just want it on the road asap. ATALA pantographed into fork, campg dropouts and without a chain stay bridge.


really don't know much about this frame builder besides they are Italian...and not exactly sure how I will build it up as yet.......

That is HAWT.

^^ nice thinking there Sherlock =)) well done