doctorstewie
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'Ello, I've been thinking again. I Know: I'll stop later, but meanwhile...
Bearing in mind how different a lot of bikes look in their small sizes as opposed to the large ones, are we naturally attracted to the bikes that are the right size for us? In other words if you are a mutant seven footer do you only like the looks of the five bar gate jobs? If you are like me and aspire to average heighthood do you like a steeply sloping top tube and short head tube?
What got me thinking was reading another thread about 80s bikes, and one poster said that he liked a bunch of bikes' lines because they were the right size for him. And normally that's how I roll ( man) but I am currently hoping like mad no one bids on a largeish Spesh ( rideable by me, but too big for "proper" mtbing) because it's the one I had BITD when discovering mountain bikes, and having seen one in the right size, it didn't look right. ( not that I can find one in that size anyway )
So does size matter as far as looks goes, and if so, how and why?
Bearing in mind how different a lot of bikes look in their small sizes as opposed to the large ones, are we naturally attracted to the bikes that are the right size for us? In other words if you are a mutant seven footer do you only like the looks of the five bar gate jobs? If you are like me and aspire to average heighthood do you like a steeply sloping top tube and short head tube?
What got me thinking was reading another thread about 80s bikes, and one poster said that he liked a bunch of bikes' lines because they were the right size for him. And normally that's how I roll ( man) but I am currently hoping like mad no one bids on a largeish Spesh ( rideable by me, but too big for "proper" mtbing) because it's the one I had BITD when discovering mountain bikes, and having seen one in the right size, it didn't look right. ( not that I can find one in that size anyway )
So does size matter as far as looks goes, and if so, how and why?