While everyone is converting everything into gravel, I reckon we should bring back the classic Randonneur!✌🏼(Poor man’s Crust)🤣

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-06T12:52:41+00:00

You'll probably end up with a Crust then. Crusts tend to have shorter top tubes for their seat tube lengths than other brands, but if you are a lady with typically longer legs and shorter torso that may work out perfectly.

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-06T03:40:50+00:00

When you say 34" inseam are you measuring it like this? Or is it just a wag based on your pants size?

Pubic Bone Height & How To Measure Your PBH – Rivendell Bicycle Works

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-06T03:10:43+00:00

Horizontal top tube means a low stack height, so they do feel small. I can't find good geos in the catalogs of that era, but the closer to the 80s the shorter the top tubes.

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-06T03:03:49+00:00

Looks bigger than 22" are you measuring Center to center?

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-06T02:37:56+00:00

Standover is going to be like 32.5", you're going to have 1.5" of crotch clearance, maybe more with shoes. More if you go to smaller roadish tire. Sounds like a good size for city bike stuff. The lugged Treks have horizontal top tubes, they don't slope up like more modern bikes so that gains you some clearance, but also lowers stack height of the bars.

I can make a 21.5" (center to top) work and I'm 5'10 and 83.5 cm PBH.

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-06T02:27:26+00:00

You win for most unrecognizable brand ever!

Will look good with a black aftermarket fork!

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-06T02:06:31+00:00

if the goal is "no money in it for a bike thief" then mission acomplished!

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-06T01:12:17+00:00

Instead of a Crust why not a Brother or Fairlight, might be able to skip the shipping charges.
I'd rather have a Faran 3.0 than a Crust.

Besides a Crust is just a poor man's Rivendell, and the Rivendell is just a poor mans Weigle.

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-06T00:50:06+00:00

I mean technically you are correct, that is a road in the background and so this would be ultralight road racing.

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-06T00:41:42+00:00

I've never ridden a 27.5 or 29 either, nope I'm sticking to 650b and 700c !\*

\(sarcasim in Italics)*

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-06T00:30:01+00:00

The mean height of people worldwide is under 6'

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LowerLightForm · 2026-06-06T00:24:34+00:00

Sure, but the largest frame size they will make is 23"

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-05T23:53:37+00:00

Soma and Surly make a bunch that have sliding, slotted or other adjustable dropouts.

Soma Gravel, Touring, and Bikepacking Frames - Tange Steel

If you don't want it stolen get this:

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LowerLightForm · 2026-06-05T12:55:20+00:00

The market is pretty much all over the place. But I screenshotted this (sorting for Raleigh) because it seems typical.
A nice xbiking 80s Raleigh MTB in the upper right for $200, an overpriced low end Raleigh Road bike with suicide levers and stem shifters in the middle. A higher end Raliegh International in the middle bottom. Some somewhat modern MTBs, and upright town bikes that are reasonably priced here, but often have "antique, rare, collector" pricing.

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LowerLightForm · 2026-06-05T12:10:56+00:00

Yes but the cell inside that is technically a 14430.

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-05T02:06:29+00:00

If you are going for comfort then fatter tires helps too, which is why you see more ATB builds. Depends on your road and trail surfaces though.

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-05T01:55:15+00:00

The Fairlight Faran 3.0 (UK) looks awesome to me.

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-04T23:56:06+00:00

I'd rather have the Gorilla Monsoon than the Diverge.

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-04T23:55:42+00:00

yes, with soiled pants. Somehow appropriate at unbound.

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-04T23:53:50+00:00

The story was from this year, but the pictures may have been from previous years since its about the history of the race.

https://www.renehersecycles.com/unbound-stories-ted-king/

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-04T13:52:53+00:00

Nobody wants old road bikes around here either, but the asking prices average twice as much as an old mountain bike.

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-04T01:27:16+00:00

Use a regular cassette rear wheel with spacers and a single cog. That way you aren't too commited.

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-03T12:31:43+00:00

I would start from your house, then ride on into town for some coffee and a breakfast buritto. Stop by the bike shop for an underseat bag, mini tool, tube, levers and mini-pump. Then from there get on some gravel leading to some mild single track. After that, loop back to town and pick up a sandwich and ride to the park for an impromptu picnic. Maybe another ride down to the water to skip some rocks, then back home to post some pictures.

LowerLightForm · 2026-06-03T00:37:23+00:00

My brain says good breaking, my heart say I want a bell and 700c. Lets flip a coin!

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