Oops! may have bought a new bike and then another...

[SWSteve]

Introducing Olive the Claud Butler, with the obligatory radiator lurking behind her.

Good looking bike, but the saddle seems really low :/

 

[thegravestoneman]

It is low but my beloved is 5ft nothing and is at full leg stretch with the saddle at this height, this is the compromise that has to be made to get her mobile on 700c's. We have looked at many 'small' framed bikes and this position is standard on them all.

 

[SWSteve]

Okay, I just wondered if it was waiting to be adjusted. Good on her with the bike, that tape shouldn't be so white in a couple of months

 

[ColinJ]

It is low but my beloved is 5ft nothing and is at full leg stretch with the saddle at this height, this is the compromise that has to be made to get her mobile on 700c's. We have looked at many 'small' framed bikes and this position is standard on them all.

Isn't she terribly overstretched to reach the bars?

 

[thegravestoneman]

The stem has virtually no length at all, it seems to fit pretty good

 

[ColinJ]

The stem has virtually no length at all, it seems to fit pretty good

It does look a bit out of proportion, but if she is comfortable riding it, that is what matters!

 

[thegravestoneman]

finally! I have got my bike too, although not on my chosen wheels yet they arrive next week due to a cock up on the hub front.

 

[thegravestoneman]

Home at last! The new un and for good measure me old un too. The new wheels I had built for it were mistakenly made with a shimano free hub so awaiting the Campy one, in the meantime a pair of Mavic on Campys with inappropriate blue tubs on. Yes the obligatory radiator shot and the white bar tape is already dirty after the 40 mile fist ride. I will be getting the steerer cut down once I know I am happy with the position although I already think I will change the bars (too shallow) so onto black tape and saddle if that happens. All those that have said it'll fly in comparison to the old one may well be mistaken as it didn't seem any quicker on the first ride but time will tell. Still new bike = big smiles.

 

[SWSteve]

Fancy!

Do the pedal arms (unsure of name) look really short to anyone else?

 

[thegravestoneman]

WOT!!! 155 is standard nowadays they told me!!!!!

must be a funny angle they are 172.5's up from the old school 170's on the Sara didn't want too big a change. They are Campag Veloce btw

 

[thegravestoneman]

Now with the proper wheels, despite appearances I am not taking a sample down to the Docs