The seat is slammed… which means some poor 5’-8” tall schmuck who didn’t know anything about bikes bought and tried to ride it. Probably why it’s for sale.
I had to search and see if there were actually any other 70cm frames out there, because there just can't be that many 7 foot tall dudes out there riding bikes. Turns out there are a couple:
This is a 70cm Seven for a Seven foot dude. A 7770 (see what I did there). High BB for...ready for this? Custom 215mm cranks. WTF??
The best thing about that Raleigh is that it might have been a stock bike! The others are obviously custom models. I wonder if the Seven needed a custom fork for a crazy long steerer.
When I first worked at an LBS in the early 90s, we sold an MTB to someone who played for the Milwaukee Bucks. The guy was huge, I think somewhere between 6'9'' and 6'11'. For his toe clips, we had to fashion extenders out of copper tubing and use extra long screws to mount the clips. This was before SPD existed.
I really do wonder why they don't stretch out the wheelbase (especially the chainstays!) on these bikes. They must want to wheelie on even the slightest hills with all the rider's weight so high and so close to the rear axle.
The add title is so right... "XXXL, NICE HYBRID BIKE, XTR, FOR TALL GUYS ONLY"
www.mtbr.com
QUOTE "True story -
~1989 or so...Giant man (not a Giant sales rep - a really tall NBA-looking guy) walks into our old bike shop with a 30" Panasonic road bike with the seat tube separated from the bottom bracket (big shocker with like a 140T chainring and 240mm cranks - that's only kind of a joke) - asks if there's any chance it is under warranty.
We shop guys are like, "um... I don't think so... but, I'll ask".
So we go to the owner: "Check out this dude and his bike"
Sure enough, the frame has our shop sticker on it, and the owner says "Wait a minute..."
He (almost literally) takes a running dive "under the deck". "The deck" is where obsolete items go to return to the soil or wherever they came from. He crawls out with an exact match to the guy's 30" Panasonic frame. Brand new. "Take it. We'll never sell it," he says.
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