Re: [CR]Frame Geometry and stay length...The angels are dancing on the head of a pin once more...

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From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Frame Geometry and stay length...The angels are dancing on the head of a pin once more...
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 22:30:01 -0700
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


+-----------------------------------------------------+ | Being able to feel the difference or not feel | | the difference in ride or handling doesn't | | mean there isn't a difference in ride or handling. | | -- Chuck Schmidt | +-----------------------------------------------------+

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, CA

On May 20, 2007, at 9:55 PM, Kurt Sperry wrote:
> I'd be rather surprised if there's a rider out there who could
> reliably feel
> the difference in ride or handling in an inch change in the real wheel
> adjustment in a blind test.
>
> Kurt Sperry
> Bellingham WA
> USA
>
>
> On 5/20/07, Tom Sanders <tsan7759142@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> I realize that there are some builders and a few real technophiles
>> (to
>> perhaps coin a word) on the list and to them it may well be
>> important to
>> know exact and precise stay lengths. For most of us, though, on
>> a built
>> up
>> bike a quick glance at the relative position of the wheel or tire
>> to the
>> seat tube is probably enough to judge whether the bike meets our
>> needs or
>> not.
>> I realize that with a bare frame this does not work too well. For
>> all
>> intents and purposes for a collector like myself, though, this one
>> glance
>> method works quite well.
>> On a bare frame I pull out my ever present tape measure and go
>> from the
>> center of the BB axel to the center of the drop out and this seems
>> to give
>> me a nearly instant and consistent result that works quite well
>> for the
>> decisions that I need to make.
>> Whether over simplifying or merely eschewing the complex, in the real
>> world
>> it works for me.
>> Tom Sanders
>> Lansing, Mi USA