Are you dissing a fit from another mtbnj supporting shop based on a photo...
when you didn't even see the rider?
Uncool, JDog.
Not really..
Funny thing about typing stuff. Sometimes the reader might throw their own spin on the comment.
I was mostly asking fair questions about his body shape.
I see 100's of road bikes a year for fitting and this bike breaks some laws of averages. That being said, I know a few guys who need a very severely odd bike shape to work for their body shape.
The rider may have some fuse vertebrae or injury that may also mandate a less than average setup.
Most of the 100+ seven frames I have built as customs are built in shapes that you could not find in a stock bike.
If the bike in question is indeed a good fit (which it most likely is) than he is a fair candidate for a custom bike. This does not mean that it is needed, just that it wouldn't be a bad idea.
In this case a shorter seatube, a steeper seattube angle, and perhaps a longer headtube.
For this given bike my only suggestion is a center mount seatpost. Because the post clamp is not centered on the rails, there is some chance of bending or breaking the rails.
Does that add some clarification on my questions?
I found a photo of my friend Gabe's bike. Just looking at his bike alone makes my skin crawl (in terms of position), but Gabe can ridein the drops for 1/2 and hour at a time. He is just a weird shaped human (WSH).
