It all depends on your body proportions. I am 6’ tall with the legs of someone who is 5’8” and the body of someone who is 6’4”. My Rivendell Custom has a top tube about 8 cm longer than the seat tube if I remember correctly. I don’t fit anything that Crust makes, which is unfortunate because I kind of like some of their designs, but they all have short top tubes. One of the reasons that I like Rivendells is that they tend to have longish top tubes.
I run long stems and setback seat posts on everything. My bars are either drops or waives or VO Clunkers (kind of Wavies with a rise). I feel cramped on any bike with pullback bars. I am however working on a possible solution. I am almost complete with my Rosco Baby that has an extremely long effective top tube. The bars are filleted Boscomoose. Last items are setting up the cantilever brakes and seeing if the ancient NOS Sturmey Archer 3 speed works. Laing Delray Beach FL On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I seem to recall a thread or series of threads a year or 2 or 4 ago when > Analog was active on the list, about their very short stems designed > precisely for getting a drop bar up close on a long-top-tube Rivendell. At > any rate, I am very definitely interested in a Clem, tho’ I’ll > procrastinate as usual while talking about it for a few years, but my left > palm does not do well with non-drop bars, and I’ve tested this since at > least 1985. > > I might well buy a Clem even with a sweep-back bar, but it would be nice > to have the opportunity to use some sort of drop bar. > > Aside, the *faut-de-mieux* Clem substitute right now is the returned > Monocog 29er. The tt is a few cm longer than my normal 56-57 for road > bikes, but I found an upjutter 6 cm stem to hold the Specialized Hover bar > with, what, 1.5 cm of rise from the clamp? So I think I can make this work. > An Analog stem would be even better, but the Monocog will be a “steal me” > beater and I don’t want to put any expensive parts on it. > > One day, God willing, I’ll replace it with a Clem, drop or upright bar, > for casual riding with the dog and for locking up outside the library. > > For the record, I do not want to force a bike into a build that it’s not > suited for — have spent far, far too much time and money trying that route > — but if others have succesfully drop-bar-ified Clems, I’d like to hear > about them and see photos. > > Patrick Moore, 38 cm RH Maes Parallels on the 2 road bikes, 42 cm RH Maes > Parallel on the dirt road bike, who just had a delightful meandering > Spring-like ride on the IGH (ASC hub) Matthews to see his brother and wife, > return via grocery store. > > On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM Conway Bennett < > captainconwaybenn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have a hunqapillar with a discord/analog fingerling stem and ritchey >> Corralitos short and shallow drop bar, and it's my favorite iteration of >> cockpits on this bike. I feel the Corralitos are a total dark horse and >> should be in the conversation for Riv cockpits. I love riv, but I'm more >> comfortable on drops, and I have never liked the single hand position found >> on most upright or alt bars. >> >> On Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 2:03:18 AM UTC-6 esoterica etc wrote: >> >>> >>> Since the MIT Atlantis was lumped together with the list of models that >>> are simply non-conducive to drop bars, I call poppycock. >>> >>> My 650b MIT Atlantis was wonderful with Nitto Noodle bars. It came to me >>> originally with Choco bars which were also wonderful, but at the time I >>> already had another bike with a similar bar and no other geared bike with >>> drop bars in my stable. So I put the Noodles on just out of curiosity >>> thinking that it probably wouldn't stay on for long, but I ended up liking >>> it better than the Chocos and kept it on until I ultimately sold the >>> Atlantis. >>> >>> You'll never know until you try, and I encourage y'all to experiment >>> with your bikes just like Will is doing. 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