WOW. Top Heavy

[roguedog]

No offense but man, check out the tt on this bike.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Titanium-Frame-Road-Bike-/330495291466?pt=Road_Bikes&hash=item4cf30df04a#ht_500wt_1156

this one's going to be hard to sell.

[TMB]

" no international"


Funny.



Something wrong with his seat tube measurements though.

[kramnnim]

Wow, weird looking. 650c?

[BumbleBeeDave]

Otherwise, it looks like it was made for achimpanzee! :eek:

BBD

[spartacus]

"standover 31.5 inches."

Is that right? Looks more.

[tele]

i think i can put a kids seat in the middle of the tt and still have room.

[firerescuefin]

Smiley's first fit ;)

[Birddog]

Smiley's first fit
Now that was coffee spewing good, a little cruel, but good.

[Tony Edwards]

I think it looks ungainly partly because it's riding on 650c wheels. Even discounting that, the top tube looks far more than 60cm long.

I don't ever recall any modern-era movement to put large bikes on 650c wheels - I have always thought of them as being either for aero purposes (e.g., on the front wheels of older TT bikes) or as a necessary compromise to maintain acceptable frame geometry on very small bikes. Does anyone have any idea why someone would have built this thing?

[rice rocket]

I think it's an illusion due to the small wheels and the really low top tube.

[torquer]

I don't ever recall any modern-era movement to put large bikes on 650c wheels - I have always thought of them as being either for aero purposes (e.g., on the front wheels of older TT bikes) or as a necessary compromise to maintain acceptable frame geometry on very small bikes. Does anyone have any idea why someone would have built this thing?
Depends on what you consider the "modern era", I guess, but during the late 80's Wayne Stetina won a masters' national title on a 650c-wheeled bike, as I recall (or heard, since I finished way back in the field), a set-up with reputed advantages for climbing. Of course, this was Stetina, who would have been competitive on a BigWheel! (I think he was using Biopace rings that year too, as he might have been on the Shimano payroll at the time.)

During the 90's, Jalabert rode a small-wheeled bike (at least some of the time) on his way to a TdF polka-dot jersey, too.

Whatever their advantage, the 650 wheels probably are gone from the pro peleton because the pros would need custom frames, which are rarely provided in the current swoopy CF era. Dunno if the UCI restricts their use, as well.

[CaptStash]

I have a feeling that the bike was someone's custom theory on a fast bike for a big guy, hence the 650cm wheels in the belief they would be faster. If you look at the seat tube it looks like it has been beefed-up 3/4 of the way from the top. There is a huge amount of tube above the top tube. Interesting bike.

CaptStash....

[54ny77]

http://www.todayfm.com/Libraries/Gift%20Grub%20Party/An_orangutan_monkey_riding_a_bike.sflb

[shiftyfixedgear]

That is so not what I think of when I hear that phrase . . .

Nigella deserves an apology.

[Shoeman]

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[beer_meister]

@shiftyfixedgear,

Thanks for gettin' this thread back on topic man !!!