Just chiming in, as a 5'2" owner of a 47cm Saluki... (52cm effective top tube on that, with a 72-degree seat-tube angle.) Set up as a traditional road bike (although with a very short-reach stem, given that I have quite short arms).
Also to say that my first Riv purchase was a 48cm first-gen (possibly second-gen?) Hillborne. Maybe I bought it from Riv in 2009 or so? It was shortly after the start of the financial crisis... Anyway, I figured that, well, of course a 48cm frame would fit... And thus started my journey into better understanding bicycle geometry. That Hillborne has an effective top tube of 54cm. Even set up as a flat-bar bike, it was wayyyy to long for me. It now belongs to my 5'8" boyfriend; it's set up as a touring bike with road bars and he uses it for touring and gravel. He loves that bike, and it fits him like a dream... Long story short, if you are 5'2" or so and want to set up a Rivendell *with road handlebars*, you'll need an early-generation Saluki/Hilson or early-gen Atlantis. (All that said, I once had a very-very small 1981 Nishiki Olympic 12. Tiny. With 27" wheels. That was a beautiful fit! I still regret selling that! So, somewhere out there, there are v. small UJBs that will absolutely work for quite short riders!) I wish you all the luck in the world! Liz S. Washington, DC On Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 2:48:04 PM UTC-4 sof...@gmail.com wrote: > Anyone looking to unload a small, road-ish Rivendell frame? Though my > heart belongs to mixtes (my sole bike is the Clem after selling my Platy), > I can't seem to get the idea of trying out a more classic, triangle frame > out of my mind! At 5'1.5 tall with a pbh of ~76, I am not even sure that a > bike with a typical top tube would work out well for me (even my 50 cm > platy felt a little bit large), but wanted to put this out into the > universe. On the other hand my 45cm Clem feels like it was made for me, > size-wise. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b64ad170-0bff-481a-94dd-2933404edcd6n%40googlegroups.com.
