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 Post subject: Bike geometry - interesting read...
PostPosted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 9:12 pm 
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http://www.mbr.co.uk/news/size-matters- ... all-321374
http://www.mbr.co.uk/news/bike_news/siz ... ing-323289
http://www.mbr.co.uk/news/bike_news/siz ... cks-324160

Came across this a few weeks back, interesting read, agree with a lots and disagree with some bits...

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 Post subject: Re: Bike geometry - interesting read...
PostPosted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:31 pm 
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Great read Matt!


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 Post subject: Re: Bike geometry - interesting read...
PostPosted: Fri Mar 13, 2015 7:56 pm 
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http://www.pinkbike.com/news/pinkbike-p ... -2015.html

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 Post subject: Re: Bike geometry - interesting read...
PostPosted: Sat May 23, 2015 5:10 pm 
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http://www.bikeradar.com/mtb/news/artic ... deo-44372/

another interesting vid all related to geometry, what mountain bike mag built two hardtails to see what extremes worked or not

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 Post subject: Re: Bike geometry - interesting read...
PostPosted: Sun May 24, 2015 7:38 pm 
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Interesting vid mate, and food for thought when I build a frame later this year :thumbup:

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 Post subject: Re: Bike geometry - interesting read...
PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 9:19 am 
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This was a good read.. In skiing you have different skis and boots for beginners all the way through to advanced. Cant see why biking should be any different.. I think the long and slack geo really helps if you ride aggressively and are active on the bike. That wasn't me when I first started so would probably have felt awful.


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 Post subject: Re: Bike geometry - interesting read...
PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 10:33 am 
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When I came to getting my new frame I spent a long time looking at the geometry (top tube length, reach, head angle, seat tube angle and seat tube height), my meta in a medium comes with a 595mm top tube, a large would be 620mm. The top tube on the banshee is 590mm medium and 615mm large (when for a large frame so my reach has lengthen by 20mm though I am running a 10mm shorter stem. My head angle is slacker at 66 degrees V 67 degrees (though I expect it to be slacker as I am running 160mm fork instead of 140mm) so the wheel base is a lot longer as well now (1148mm V 1179mm) .

I also looked at a number of other bike geometry that i had also ridden including the mondraker foxy, kona process and bird Arial (all designed a round a longer reach and short stem as standard. The foxy tt is 630mm, process 600mm and Arial 625mm. Some big differences between manufacturers though the mondraker is designed around a 10mm direct mount stem.

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 Post subject: Re: Bike geometry - interesting read...
PostPosted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 11:49 am 
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http://www.pinkbike.com/news/nicolai-mo ... -2015.html

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