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Fitting a Road Bike Frame to Your Needs

For most of us, well-intentioned butespecially if you happen to have
casual bike riders who secretly believeanything unique about your physique,
we might be Lance Armstrong's heir if welike long legs combined with a short
only had a few more hours a day to spendtorso. If you have long legs, you can
on our bicycles, buying a new road bikestraddle almost any bike, but will your
is tantamount to buying a road bikebody be able to relax comfortable in the
frame. The frame is what we're thinkingstretch between your saddle and the
of, something new and shiny andhandlebars? The whole geometry of the
colorful, something we suspect even carroad bike frame matters a lot to fit.
drivers envy when they see us flashAnd fit matters excessively to
through the snarl of traffic. Truly, acomfort.If you're a racer, comfort will
road bike frame is a beautiful thing andnot be your only consideration. Indeed,
part of the reason we loveit may be down among the last elements
bicycling.When you have the good fortuneyou consider. Speed is not usually
to be looking at new bicycles, though,built from comfort, and the road bike
you definitely want to look at a fewframe that promotes speed is built of
elements besides the color of a roaddifferent materials than one used
bike frame. Face it. When you're onprimarily for recreational riding.
your way back home from a long SundayFrames can be made of titanium,
ride and you're riding your thirty-fifthchrome-moly, aluminum or steel, and each
mile smack into a stiff headwind, themetal has different advantages of weight
fact that your frame is cobalt blue orand strength. Frame geometry varies,
even Bianchi green is not going to helptoo, with touring bikes featuring a
you. The length of your seat tube islonger vertical base and top tube than
going to help you and the length of yourthe skittish racing models.So when
top tube and even the angle of the threeyou're looking at road bike frames,
main tubes all put together is going tothink beyond the paint. Get a frame
help (or hinder) you, but color isthat fits both you and your purpose.
not.If you shop at a discount store orWhether you do your research online or
even a general purpose sports store, ifin a good bike store, you'll be glad you
you get any help at all in choosing atook the time.Alastair Hamilton is a
bike that fits you, it will probablysuccessful writer who offers a truly
consist of a clerk instructing you tounique depth of experience in
stand over the top bar of the frame andcompetitive cycling, he also contributes
see if you can comfortably straddle itadding technical articles on road bikes
with your feet on the floor. This is( ) to some cycling online magazines.
not really particularly helpful,



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