Masi frames will have uncut steerers, but any bike will have a cut steerer tube. There is not a way to order them without.
umm, $2000, but I'd much rather buy a production bike that I'd like with an uncut tube for <$1500. I can and would transfer parts, but I'd say the mix of 105 and ultegra on my back-up bike have 5000 miles.
I run the bars level with the saddle as I like to rest my forearms on them. Traditional seat-tube for me would be about 58cm, but TT is 55cm. As such, if I buy a production bike with the proper TT, I'd have to run the seatpost long, no biggie, but those bikes typically have a 13cm head-tube and I'd need at least 5cm MORE steerer tube than is typical on a production bike. So yeah, flipping the stem does nothing.
I'll see what info I can get from Haro on Monday.
cool!
Thanks for the info. I'd have to guess straight off that I can't afford those, tho I'd love a Pinarello.
3 days left on ebay, currently at $1400. I have to imagine it'll go much closer to $2000 or more.
I still don't understand this ape hanger bar height obsession. You can't possibly get areo with bars as high as you want them? I mean if all you do is bike trail ridding or something then I can see where maybe you don't care about speed, but I go from sitting up to tucked on the drops, and gain 3mph every time.
Dude - you have a Mike's Hard Iced Tea sign.Come on Alice put your purse away, and drop those bars. BTW I measured mine on my new rig. I am sitting at 6" of drop from top of the seat to the top of the bars. My bike was made in Wiscompton too. I cut a good 2" off the steerer upon delivery.
It's my roomate's, the dead snowboard however was my crafty work though. Delaminated in front of front binding.Dude - you have a Mike's Hard Iced Tea sign.
Opinion denied.
I should post pics of the rest of his decorations and we can rip on him together. My decorations include the dead snowboard, an old BMX frame, old MTB frame with bent deraileur hanger, and Oakley sign, and a Ferrari F40 poster.Let me have some fun dammit.
I enjoy riding my bike, and that is all that matters.
If you have a gut at all, even a tiny one, its hard to have really low bars. My road bike is stretched and low and after I got injured last spring (and then gained weight eating/drinking beer) I had trouble riding becuase my stomach would hit my knees on deep breaths.
This is true. As long as you have a great time, that is all that matters. I never thought about what IRE said. I have a small gut, I mean I am a small guy 5'10" 154lbs now. If anyone has a gut remotely big, they are not going to be able to ride with as much drop as me. I don't know how much any of you weigh, or the size of your guts. Excuse me for being ignorant, and not thinking about other's bodies, in relation to their setups. What works for me, might not work for you. I'm gonna quit posting about bar height, but for the record 6" of drop works great for me. Gotta go clean the bike now. Got her all dirty yesterday, rain and fallen leaves=mess!Wumpus said:
hahaha - I think we figured out the problem.
hahaha - I think we figured out the problem.
Yeah realistically I probably can't go up. I am flat footed, at the bottom of the pedal stroke, but barely. Almost tip toeing. From what I hear tip toeing is bad. Can you elaborate on knee/ spindle alignment? I might be able to set that up better. Never knew anything about such, I just set it up where it felt right for me, which is all the way back.
It's simple, he's finally found something he can excell at and is virtually getting back at all those people who gave him crap growing up.
Read my above post. I apologized for my ignorance. I have no idea what your body is like so I shouldn't, and will cease to making post about bar height. ire made it apparent to me, why drop like I run can be too much for people with bigger stomachs than the likes of people smaller stomachs like myself. I understand now. I don't know if this is the case with you or not, but 6" of drop works great for me, and that is all that matters to me. If you found a magical position for you then great. I'm just trying to get myself as low, and flat as possible, and did not understand why others ran bars higher.
Dude, have you noticed that you make almost every thread on this subject about you?
Toe down riding isn't necessarily a bad thing, to each his own. Watch some of the pros (Maroe comes to mind), some have a more flat/heel down stroke and others have a heel up/toe down pedal stroke. The biggest thing to make sure of is that you are never rocking your hips to get to the end of the pedal stroke.
