Besides, since bottom bracket height varies with tire size and pressure, it's better to measure bottom bracket drop -- the perpindicular distance between the (hopefully) horizontal line between the center of the hub axles, and the center of the bottom bracket spindle.
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:54:58 -0400, Richard M Sachs wrote
> u r evil.
> typically, all measurements on a bicycle are center
> to center. fwiw, measuring the key dimensions after
> it is assembled will not always replicate the 2D ones
> that were in the frame blueprint. oh - and i wouldn't trust
> any imperial dimensions. the tea party thing, and all that...
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> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:48:49 -0400 "Tom Sanders"
> <tsan7759142@comcast.net> writes:
> After seeing that I had been measuring Chainstays wrong, I am now
> wondering about bottom bracket height. I have been measuring from
> the ground to the bottom of the bottom bracket shell. It now occurs
> to me that perhaps I should be measuring to the center of the axle.
> Hopefully this will engender less heat than the chainstay discussion.
>
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