SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
Personally, I don't try my luck with riding overly large frames. At a push, I could just ride a 25" road frame, but I would need to dismount the saddle very carefully and this factor just doesn't inspire confidence when riding in traffic. My hybrid/road frames are all 23 1/2" and 22 1/2" - the latter being a tiny bit small - but whereas you can adjust a saddle and bars, you can't adjust the crossbar.
If that was given to me I would probably look to use it as "currency" and see if I could do a swap with someone in the opposite situation; i.e. having a slightly smaller frame and wanting a bigger one. Reynolds 500 is looked down upon, but it's a worthwhile step up from gas pipe in terms of strength to weight ratio. I own a Dawes MTB project made of Reynolds 500 which I suspect was built at the turn of the 1990's. Just like @Drago I also rate cro-moly steel frames, having 3 lugged ones of 501 and 1 of 500, plus the bare Saracen MTB frame I recently found made of some non-Reynolds welded cro-moly...
If that was given to me I would probably look to use it as "currency" and see if I could do a swap with someone in the opposite situation; i.e. having a slightly smaller frame and wanting a bigger one. Reynolds 500 is looked down upon, but it's a worthwhile step up from gas pipe in terms of strength to weight ratio. I own a Dawes MTB project made of Reynolds 500 which I suspect was built at the turn of the 1990's. Just like @Drago I also rate cro-moly steel frames, having 3 lugged ones of 501 and 1 of 500, plus the bare Saracen MTB frame I recently found made of some non-Reynolds welded cro-moly...
