Wow! For my very first post to the CR list, I seem to have stirred up plenty of discussion. I am now more confused than ever :-) But somehow I think I will figure this one out. At worst case, there appear to be several people who would kindly take this off my hands! As a purly altruistic measure, of course.
Just to verify, I just remeasured and the seattube is 63cm ctt, 58cm tt, 120 rear spacing. It needs to be refinished, but it has potential.
If anyone is interested in seeing the frame, I have created a yahoo
photo album for the frame at
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/
Keep the responses coming, and happy holidays
Jason "more confused than before" Moore Dallas TX
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:07:27 -0500 From: "Pete Geurds" <raleighpro@dejazzd.com> To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: Re: [CR]1971 Mercian conundrum Message-ID: <002001c4e872$a018eb80$0100000a@home> References: <1103744259.13472.211345201@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: list Message: 10
If you had bought an off the rack Raleigh, or similar bike back then, that's about what the top tube would have been, so maybe it's not so bad. The seattube is 63cm c-c? Being an English frame maybe was sold as a 25 1/2" c-t? Might not be your ideal "as fitted by the local pro shop" size but I bet a lot of us are riding bikes that "don't fit" by todays fashions. Of course we do and are happy for the most part. Try it out and see how it goes. The seatpost should probably have decent setback so you can move saddle back a bit. Stem length and a bar with decent reach should help things along. Then again if it doesn't work out some of us ride that size, and gee, I don't have a Mercian............; )
Pete Geurds
Douglassville, Pa
-- Jason Moore
-- Jason Moore