Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

If you can ride out of the saddle, without feeling like you're too far over the front wheel, you're probably ok.

Need curtain shot to confirm #internetbiekfit though

You tend to have quite a lot of saddle-bar drop on your road bikes, so it's bound to feel alien, even if it fits ok.

Sparky is flogging his orange for a good price?

For reference, this is road biek:

Internet bike fitting wizards, start your wands.

If you can ride out of the saddle, without feeling like you're too far over the front wheel, you're probably ok.

I could not resist jumping up and down whilst rolling along slowly, I seem to be in the middle of the bike.

From here it looks like you have the wheels on upside down.

You need a potatochopper to overlay the images

From here it looks like you have the wheels on upside down.

That's only because the tyres are backwards.

Bit rough, matched the ERD and then tried to align the BB-centers.

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a smear of suspension fluid around the fork and shock outer seal used to be good for overcoming new unit tightness.

read the manuals, learn the fox service regime and is it still Silverfish for warranty issues ? as Mojo ceased a while back. (several tuning house out there anyway)
Seriously check the run times between services, to get weight down units use as little oil as possible so it needs checking/changing more often. Run them dry and dirty and they eat themselves internally.

Can now confirm, neither of Dammit's bikes fit him.

Stick a 140mm -17 on it

Stick a 140mm -17 on it

Then tilt the saddle nose down ever so slightly...

Bit rough, matched the ERD and then tried to align the BB-centers.

Now, what does this mean?

The photoshopping was a bit rough, I first got the scale right by matching the effective rim diameter as that's the only dimension that's the same between the two and than I aligned them at the heart of the bottom bracket as I figured that would be the best zero-point for comparing the fit between the two.

Ah, sorry - not, that makes sense, I'm just wondering what the overlay says about the size.

Just ride it, it'll be fine

How does it feel, compared to the Marin?

I was trying to compare them - I can't recall there being a difference, however:

                     Marin   Cannondale
           Stack    61.9            61.5
           Reach     46             42.8

So stackwise there's nothing in it, but the Marin is just over 3cm longer.

^Fuck knows what happened there with the formatting

The XL Scalpel is only 45cm of reach, so still shorter than the L Marin, but a lot higher - 62.7 of stack.

Headtube angle is a degree slacker on the Marin

Gah

Hard to say really. There's only 9mm difference in ETT, as there's 3 degrees difference in seat angle between the two. If you prefer sitting forward more, then it may feel cramped.

Overly short mtbs don't inspire a lot of confidence, as it's no fun feeling like you're about to go over the bars on steep trails :-|