Polo bike geometry + addons

Add S&S travel couplings +£1,000.00
Wow...

John would make that back in a month on money saved on flights.

Lol

That's pretty standard Ben.

Although bob Jackson will do it for £600 and a bit, it's an economies of scale thing isn't it.

BJ do loads of them so they are cheaper...

Iirc, you need to be licenced by S+S or something, so only a few places will do them.

Mercian does them too at a lower price and Kinetics even lower. Not balking at the price, just genuine suprise.

$750 with Fleet Velo

€250 for Max Power couplers, I've not heard of any issues with them so far, and another reason why I'll be getting another Max Power as my next bike.

Do you know when the Max Power 700c will be public?

What do you mean by public? There is at least one being used (Danny Bambule), and it's on his website.

That. Silly me.

I rode Danny's in Vienna. It was hard to tell if it was better, as he has tiny bars, and a hydraulic FBO setup, which was a bit different to my rather spongy double cable disk, "wide" bar setup, to the point I almost killed myself when I tried to stop or turn.

But in a straight line it was great. I'm going to get one, for the 2014 season.

in a straight line it was great.

ROFL.

Straight lines tell you nothing about a bike's geometry unless you're evaluating its stiffness under acceleration and braking.

ROFL.

Straight lines tell you nothing about a bike's geometry unless you're evaluating its stiffness under acceleration and braking.
What does its stiffness under acceleration and braking tell you about its geometry?

So why the detailed comparison of setups when it contributed no insights about bike geometry?

There's a "polo bikes" thread for that kind of idle chitchat.

What does its stiffness under acceleration and braking tell you about its geometry?

Either it's well designed or John wasn't trying hard enough.

Yeah, you've got me there, it wasn't an entirely serious post. I'm not able to post a good comparison until i've ridden one that's setup in a similar way to mine.

I'm surprised otters not said anything about all this stiffness.

I'm otherwise occupied.

Revisited.

Done a search nothing came up

I am going to pull the trigger and get a new polo frame the trouble is not very sure on the geo. I'd like something that is comfortable and tight.

I feel comfortable on 26s and have built up a new set of chukkers so they will be on the new rig. Other than that it's up in the air, I may go to mielec as Robert is cheap and willing to do custom geo and only charges 50dolla for shipping. You can't argue with them metrics.

The few ideas I've been rolling around.

26inch version of this

This prehaps in an alu version:

There are the likes of the velolucumas but I don't think the geo would be that different to my current bike and the forks have a habit of snapping. The guys from barcelona can't remember their name off hand only make their forks with disc tabs, I'm running v brakes so that's out.

If you're not too sure on what angles you want for stuff you'll probably be better getting something a bit more off the peg, or if you want a meilec then find out someone else's geo that you like and get them to copy it.

Wait a bit and buy a velvet

I know I sold mine but I'd really recommend investing in something like a hija- really solid, handles very predictably and are quite forgiving.I think scaling down a bmw gangsta or similar would probably give you something a little less fit for purpose.

Wait a bit and buy a velvet

This.

Ok so,
After bending my last bank robber frame, the stainless one, by putting a beffy alumium fork and rushing head down straight into Cam bike's at the Euro Bench last year, im back with a new project. Still with Bank Robber (sammy moteur Fucker brand).
This time i go with a less sloppey geo, because the top tube was hurting my right knee too much when i was jumping.
This time he gonna make me a fork, so no more aluminium on steel. We decide also to drop stainless steel because of the price, we want to make a beefy prototype first.
I made it a little longer than last time too. And I'll go for weird angles, 71° instead of the usual 73-74°. I make it like that because right now im riding a EXS 52cm made for 700 wheells but with both 26 (same frame as the one i rode at wolrds, but i kicked out the back 700).
Even if the frame is not made for this set up, that's pretty confortable, with a 74 mm rake. My only issue is the bb height wich is 27.5. So i took almost the same specs but with higher BB.

Any other examples of this kind of angles? whats the usual rake you guys use?

PS
I noticed at the end that this bike looks a lot like todd one for almost all specs but angles (he have 74°, i have 71°). He have something around 6.4 rake and i have 7.4. But he's bigger than me. Does it means that my project is too big for me? (im 1m72).

Cheers.

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