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Thanks doppelkorn, hopefully I will be here for a while, so when you do have some reddies, give me a shout.
The customer wanted a decent amount of stand over height, as the bike is going to be used for touring every couple of months and will be fully loaded when it is, so he if he needs to put his feet down, he doesn't want to take his genitals off in the process.
If it had used a parallel TT with another stand over height, to have got the bars in the right place would have involved either a massive HT, massive amount of steerer left on the fork, or a very silly stem, none of which are very desirable.
A beneficial, if slight added benefit is that it stiffens up the frame to any lateral load applied to the frame, which can be problematic if you are carrying a large amount of weight in your panniers, while giving some vertical compliance from having a larger amount of exposed seat post.
Therefore, you could say.............
"Talbot Frameworks - Laterally stiff, yet vertically compliant ©" (yawn....)|
As far as the spacers are concerned, as the bike hasn't been fitted for the customer, I don't cut the steerer, as I don't particularly want to have to add a new steerer if I cut it too short.
As far as the bars being too low in relation to the seat post, that wasn't what the frame was designed to do, the customer is a roady by trade, and wants something to take everything he wants to carry, but would normally do up to 100 miles per day, so having the ability to get into a (ever so) slightly more aggressive position than on a more traditional tourer was deemed to be beneficial, although, to be fair it is not really that controversial a design, and I am far from the first person to do it.
The only thing I would say is that the front wheel has turned slightly towards the camera, which has given the appearance of a slightly shorter stem than it actually is.