Marc and All,
I seem to remember riding that Singer with Mark while my 5'4" wife Susan drafted along calling us "team barndoor".
Jim Cunningham CyclArtist Vista, CA
-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Ritzmon@aol.com Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:21 PM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]why you should point all small bikes at me
All this chat and whining about wee bikes... What about us BIG guys? It's very hard to find nice 63cm and up bikes! I feel fortunate to own a few, but most of them have horrendously short top tubes (57 - 58cm) for a long arm, long torso guy such as myself. Rare are the bikes with 60+ cm top tubes that allow a stem of less than 14cm to fit!
So when you come across those big guy bikes that are just too large, give guys like me and Mark Petry a thought... And don't get me started about racing with Brian Baylis in the 70's and trying to draft him!
The largest bike I owned was a 66cm. Singer now in the capable hands of Jim Cunningham @ Cyclart. The steerer tube was longer than the fork blades!
Mark (Too big) Ritz
Rainy Arcata, CA