BarrierFreeman

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• Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

  in Bikes & Bits • 11 years, 4 months

  

  ^^
  This:

  The head tubes are also often shorter to give you a lower tt. I guess you could compare and contrast lots of frames, but I'd have thought they'd all have a similarish "problem".

  Why not just measure the distance from your saddle to bar length on your Giant and replicate it with the appropriate length stem first? You don't really want to be moving your saddle back to accommodate for having too much reach.

  I just sold the medium Giant for being a touch too long, as well as fanxying a change, and was surprised when the small Boardman CX was the same length.

  I was going to shorten the Giant with 80mm (from 100mm) stem, so will just do the same with the CX. As for the seat post, well, I hopefully will do as little messing with it as possible, but may still go for a zero/less layback post.

• Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

  in Bikes & Bits • 11 years, 4 months

  

  I had to shorten the stem on my medium Boardman CX by 2cm to a 9cm and add a bit of rise as I'm not very flexible. They do seem pretty long overall.

  It doesn't help they have a 20mm layback seat post as well. Thinking I might try a 80mm stem/10mm layback first to see if that helps.

  ...although I do prefer to go for the nuclear option some time, and just change the bike.

• Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

  in Bikes & Bits • 11 years, 4 months

  

  Question.

  Is it just me, or are Boardman CXs very long? Recently acquired a small framed version, but at 5'7" it feels quite stretched out and has the same TT as my Medium Giant Defy.

  Thinking of selling it on, and going for something like a Merida Cyclo Cross 4.

  ...which brings me onto my second question:

  Anyone have can offer any opinions on the Merida? Looks half decent, but wondering about a) sizing as their size chart looks way off....i.e Usually a 52cm framer being 5'7", but they list 52cm for 5'5>6' range. So would I need a 48cm? ...and b) with such a short headtube on them and tight angles, it looks like toe overlap central.

• For Sale: Genesis IO SSMTB

  in Complete bikes and frame & forks • 11 years, 5 months

  

  /unhelpful first post

  If this was a 16" frame, I would have been very interested.

  Incidentally, you sure they are Rebas? Look more like Revs.