Yeah I'm 6'4" and hear what you're saying. I'll be getting the XL of an Arrival and probably run a 10mm spacer and 35 rise bars. With a 64 HTA, you lose about 1mm of length with a10mm spacer, but the riser bar essentially lifts you straight up.
Its so funny looking at Steve Pete's bikes, he always had to run a ridiculous amount of spacers, looked so bad. Now with these new massive bikes (XXL Megatower) you can run a slammed stem, but omg do those huge head tubes look awful.
I remember when i bought my Pole Evolink a few years back and thought it was MASSIVE. I checked the geo out of curiosity and it had a reach of 510, stack of 635 and I ran a 20mm BZA bar. On paper that bike should be tiny for me now considering I 'have to' add a bunch of spacers to get the stack to 650ish. I'm starting to wonder if we went a bit far with geo...
Aug. 5, 2021, 7:48 a.m. - T-mack
Yeah I'm 6'4" and hear what you're saying. I'll be getting the XL of an Arrival and probably run a 10mm spacer and 35 rise bars. With a 64 HTA, you lose about 1mm of length with a10mm spacer, but the riser bar essentially lifts you straight up. Its so funny looking at Steve Pete's bikes, he always had to run a ridiculous amount of spacers, looked so bad. Now with these new massive bikes (XXL Megatower) you can run a slammed stem, but omg do those huge head tubes look awful. I remember when i bought my Pole Evolink a few years back and thought it was MASSIVE. I checked the geo out of curiosity and it had a reach of 510, stack of 635 and I ran a 20mm BZA bar. On paper that bike should be tiny for me now considering I 'have to' add a bunch of spacers to get the stack to 650ish. I'm starting to wonder if we went a bit far with geo...