Today's #30daysOfBiking was taking a short test ride with partner on her "new bike" (the orange bike after its handlebar swap, which she likes), which she still hates (the torque-sensor-only pedal control with no throttle, and seat too high/vertical 😕) and then for a spring foliage in the hills ride on my xtracycle to make it up to her.
The seat and head tube angles on this frame are just wrong. It's a whacky frame geometry, maybe it's for people who like hunching over the wide handlebar, riding with a lot of weight on their wrists? #LittleBigOrangeBike
@NewNordicNormal for me (5'-10") riding it, I was able to use a layback post, but that doesn't fix the squirrelly steering angle and I would still rather the bars be higher + farther back but I didn't want to redo brake hoses. For her, the saddle is back as far as marks allow, seat post so low that part of the clamp is going into the tube. Most offsets are only 1.25in or so but she really wants it down & back. Something like a bench seat where the nose just goes over the seatpost maybe🤷
@enobacon I wonder if you put 40-50lbs on that front rack, if the geometry makes a little more sense. Slack headtubes don't get along well with heavy high rack loads
But really my guess here is it was supposed to be a throttle bike
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