I think Pipedream lists their HT geo with a sagged fork so compared to a lot of other brands that list unsagged the numbers seem steeper than reality. So that 77.5 deg is more like unsagged 76 deg. And as you note with bent seat tubes the higher the saddle the slacker the effective STA is.
Aug. 26, 2022, 4:28 p.m. - Vik Banerjee
I think Pipedream lists their HT geo with a sagged fork so compared to a lot of other brands that list unsagged the numbers seem steeper than reality. So that 77.5 deg is more like unsagged 76 deg. And as you note with bent seat tubes the higher the saddle the slacker the effective STA is.