hat and beard
Maximum Pace
- Apr 3, 2012
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Can anybody tell me exactly what the advantages of a seat stay that crosses over the seat tube and connects to the top tube are?
Something like this:
I'm having a steel touring / randonneuring frame built by my friend (http://www.tunesaburou.com/) and he really wants me to do this. He tried to explain to me why this would be a good idea, but I didn't understand his explanation (my Japanese is passable but my bicycle Japanese has a long way to go). From what I could decipher it has something to do with the extremely tall (64cm) seat tube we will use. Aesthetically I quite like it and think I might do it anyways, but just curious if anyone can explain to me what the advantage of this is from a mechanical standpoint.
Oddly the only pictures of bikes like this I can find on the internet are older Japanese touring bikes... and BMCs.
Something like this:
I'm having a steel touring / randonneuring frame built by my friend (http://www.tunesaburou.com/) and he really wants me to do this. He tried to explain to me why this would be a good idea, but I didn't understand his explanation (my Japanese is passable but my bicycle Japanese has a long way to go). From what I could decipher it has something to do with the extremely tall (64cm) seat tube we will use. Aesthetically I quite like it and think I might do it anyways, but just curious if anyone can explain to me what the advantage of this is from a mechanical standpoint.
Oddly the only pictures of bikes like this I can find on the internet are older Japanese touring bikes... and BMCs.