Timeline for What is the difference between a horizontal top tube and a sloped one?
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| Feb 23, 2021 at 21:37 | answer | added | gary worman-buckland | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 5:34 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | I have to say sloping top tubes look like touring bikes to me - they look like a handlebar that is a lot higher. A level top tube looks "right" to my eyes. | |
| Feb 9, 2019 at 22:45 | answer | added | cmaster - reinstate monica | timeline score: 6 | |
| S Feb 8, 2019 at 11:23 | history | suggested | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 20, 2016 at 9:03 | answer | added | Criggie♦ | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 8:00 | comment | added | user25596 | A sloping top tube does not look right to me. I think its a cost cutting measure. The weight you would save is very small. You save a lot of weight on bikes by have nice light rims and alloy or stainless steel spokes, and a shorter seat post plus narrow handle bars, and run skinny 25 or 22 tires. I hate the look of the sloping top tube. It looks not finished and that does nothing for performance or weight. A good chromoly bike can be as just as light as a good alloy one. The down side of a very light bike such as an alloy or carbon fibre bike is durability; a chromoly bike will give a much smo | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 18:41 | comment | added | Matt | The top picture is just one I grabbed from the Internet, the second one I also grabbed from the Internet but it's a Trek Crossrip, the make and model of my own bicycle. | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 20:57 | answer | added | ChrisL | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jul 21, 2015 at 2:31 | answer | added | dlu | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 23, 2014 at 14:48 | vote | accept | Matt | ||
| Apr 19, 2014 at 20:09 | comment | added | PeteH | I'm assuming the images were for illustration only. Two other examples are the Giant Propel Advanced (standard) and the Giant TCR Advanced (compact). Both of these are mens' road bikes and could quite conceivably run alongside each other on the same ride. Last year, Team Belkin's riders had the choice of either of these bikes in the Tour de France. (Not sure how this stands with Giant-Shimano this year.) | |
| Apr 19, 2014 at 20:01 | history | edited | PeteH |
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| Apr 19, 2014 at 19:28 | comment | added | Batman | The second bike is a trek crossrip which is a commuter cross bike (i.e. "cyclocross" for the road), so has a slightly different geometry (bb height, etc.), while the first one is a standard road bike (in fact, a woman's bike). | |
| Apr 19, 2014 at 19:26 | answer | added | PeteH | timeline score: 22 | |
| Apr 19, 2014 at 17:29 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackBicycles/status/457571580810649600 | ||
| Apr 19, 2014 at 6:12 | answer | added | alex | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 19, 2014 at 4:44 | history | asked | Matt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |