More cool: http://www.bikerumor.com/2013/04/26/soc13-dirty-sixer-builds-36-wheeled-mtbs-for-the-exceptionally-tall/
1.5" head! *10 inch rotors!!* The photo (scroll down) of the 6'10" tester makes the bike look just right. I remember a long-time-ago photo in Bicycling of a road frame custom built for a 7-something NBA player. It was pictured next to a 56, which could pass through the main triangle without touching. On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very interesting; I knew of the 36ers that were sold in the '90s -- > erstwhile Dick "It's not worth my time to look for that item" Hallet of > ABQ's most interesting bike shop had one in his lot -- but thought these > were merely gimmicks trading on the "baby boomer little boy" nostalgia that > brought baggy shorts coming down to mid calf and backwards baseball caps -- > as if we wanted to be 8-year-olds again. > > From the website, these all seem to be off road or "hybrid" type bikes. Is > that an accurate summary? > > The aesthetic advantage is obvious; these bikes look normal, to me. Is > there a handling advantage, too? > > Do you have proprietary tires? > > Patrick "midget 5'10" " Moore, who'd love a 60 X 57. > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:41 PM, davidfrench <nydavidfo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I wonder how you can judge something without riding it. >> I have ridden the 71cm Rivendell bring 6'6" with 99cm inseam. >> I have worked for years on the 36" wheel bikes (my company is DirtySixer) >> to make a safer and more stable ride. More comfortable. More efficient with >> proportionate cranks. >> The toe overlap you learn by reading on the Internet is because some 36er >> were built for short people therefore creating geometry problems. That is >> not what I'm doing with my DirtySixer as they are built for people over >> 6'4" exclusively. >> I'd like to let you ride one if the several prototypes I built and you >> will understand. >> I'm in the Bay Area. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis > > ************************************* > * "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to > never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from > it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* > * "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to > look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind > it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into > somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your > daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is > all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was > any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, > because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where > in your time and your body can they be?* > * "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. > "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where > Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of > you can find it?” -- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood * > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ Patrick Moore Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis ************************************* * "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* * "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where in your time and your body can they be?* * "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of you can find it?” -- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
