Hey, that's me! I did have Bosco Bullmoose bars on my Quickbeam for about a year, and yes, it did feel very short, although the setback seatpost helped. They later got switched out for Albatrosses and eventually, Avenir Circa handlebars. The QB definitely has a comparatively short top tube; even with the less swept-back Alba's and Circas, I still ride an 130mm stem. I'm still constantly fiddling with that bike but this is pretty close to the current setup:
https://flic.kr/p/Ett4rD Around the same time I took the Bosco's off the Quickbeam I put a pair of standard Aluminum Bosco's on my Surly LHT, which has a ~2cm longer top tube than my QB (62 vs. 60, both are 64cm frames), and that felt great with a stem in the 110-120mm range. I rode that setup all over for almost two years, including touring from SF to LA. Here it is: https://flic.kr/p/pgoF44 However, I just came in from the garage, where I was working on that bike's latest transformation. Being the fickle guy that I am, it's getting drops (shock! horror!), but only because I have a 59cm Clem frame also waiting in the garage to get built up as a (slightly more offroady) upright all-rounder, and the Trucker is morphing into more of a go-faster bike. https://flic.kr/p/FYn3z9 On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 7:20:53 PM UTC-7, iamkeith wrote: > > I did just remember this, in case you're still bent on trying to imagine > what it will look like. This fellow put boscos on a quickbeam, right after > the bars were released. > > > http://handlebarchronicles.blogspot.com/2013/05/spring-2013-becoming-upright.html > > The Quickbeam is a contemporary-of and similar-to the Rambouillet, but it > IS ever-so-slightly longer - no matter what the charts indicate! Also > noteworthy, now that I see this again, that his saddle actually does sit > close to the top tube, almost like Joe described. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
